Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
want (verb)intransitive verb
1.
to be needy or destitute
2.
to have or feel need - never wants for friends
3.
to be necessary or needed
4.
transitive verb
to desire to come, go, or be - the cat wants in wants out of the deal
1.
to fail to possess especially in customary or required amount - lack the answer wanted courtesy
2.
a) to have a strong desire for - wanted a chance to rest
b) to have an inclination to - like say what you want, he is efficient
3.
a) to have need of - require the motor wants a tune-up
b) to suffer from the lack of - thousands still want food and shelter
4.
- ought used with the infinitive you want to be very careful what you say Claudia Cassidy
5.
to wish or demand the presence of
6.
to hunt or seek in order to apprehend - wanted for murder desire
1.
a) - deficiency lack suffers from a want of good sense
b) grave and extreme poverty that deprives one of the necessities of life
2.
something - wanted need desire
3.
personal defect - fault poverty
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
want (noun)1.
the fact or state of being absent
SYNONIMS:
absence, dearth, wantRELATED WORDS:
deficiency, deficit, failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness, undersupply; deprivation, loss, necessity, need, needfulness, omission; privation; blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuum, voidNEAR ANTONYMS:
abundance, amplitude, bounty, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty, wealth; adequacy, sufficiency; excess, overabundance, oversupply, superabundance, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood; bushel, deal, gobs, heap, loads, lot, mass, mountain, much, oodles, peck, pile, pot, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, volume, wad; fund, pool, stock, supply; cache, hoard, stash, stockpile2.
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
SYNONIMS:
crunch, dearth, deficit, drought ( drouth), failure, famine, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, lack, lacuna, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, wantRELATED WORDS:
absence, omission; meagerness, poorness, skimpiness; necessity, need, privationNEAR ANTONYMS:
bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus3.
a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful
SYNONIMS:
absence, lack, needfulness, wantRELATED WORDS:
deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency; dearth, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness; defect, minus; deprivation, famishment, privation; demand, essential, necessity, requirement, requisiteNEAR ANTONYMS:
adequacy, enough, sufficiency; fund, pool, stock, supply; excess, fill, overabundance, oversupply, plenty, surfeit, surplus; hoard, stockpile4.
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions
SYNONIMS:
beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, wantRELATED WORDS:
gutter, misery, woe, wretchedness; exigency; emergency, rainy day; austerity, deprivation, privation; bankruptcy, insolvency; belt-tightening, pinching, straiteningNEAR ANTONYMS:
luxury, prosperity5.
a defect in character
SYNONIMS:
demerit, dereliction, failing, foible, frailty, shortcoming, sin, vice, want, weaknessRELATED WORDS:
blot, spot, stain; blemish, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, minus, nit; Achilles' heel, soft spot; corruption, depravity, evil, immorality, sinfulness, wickednessNEAR ANTONYMS:
excellence, perfection; goodness, integrity, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness1.
to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy
SYNONIMS:
ache (for), covet, crave, desiderate, die (for), hanker (for after), hunger (for), itch (for), jones (for), long (for), lust (for after), pant (after), pine (for), repine (for), salivate (for), sigh (for), thirst (for), want, wish (for), yearn (for), yen (for)RELATED WORDS:
spoil (for); adore, delight (in), dig, enjoy, fancy, groove (on), like, love, relish, revel (in); favor, prefer; admire, appreciate, cherish, prize, treasure, valueNEAR ANTONYMS:
abhor, abominate, despise, detest, execrate, hate, loathe; decline, refuse, reject, spurn2.
to have as a requirement
SYNONIMS:
bear, challenge, claim, demand, necessitate, require, take, want, warrantRELATED WORDS:
entail, involve; ask, beg, claim, clamor (for), cry (for); hurt (for), lack; command, enjoin, exact, insist, press, quest, stipulateNEAR ANTONYMS:
own, possess3.
to see fit
SYNONIMS:
like, please, want, will, wishRELATED WORDS:
ache (for), covet, crave, desire, die (for), fancy, hanker (for), hunger (for), itch (for), long (for), lust (for after), pant (after), pine (for), repine (for), sigh (for), thirst (for), yearn (for); decide, determine, resolve4.
to wish to have
SYNONIMS:
care (for), wantRELATED WORDS:
adore, delight (in), dig, enjoy, fancy, groove (on), love, relish, revel (in), welcome; covet, crave, desire, die (for), hanker (for after), wish (for), yearn (for)