What is another word for want?
Synonyms for want
wɒnt, wɔntwant
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word want.
Wiktionary
wantcontraction
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wasntwantverb
A personification of want.
Synonyms:
wasnt, would like, wishwantverb
Poverty.
Synonyms:
be withoutwantverb
To be in need of; to require (something).
That chair wants fixing.
Synonyms:
need, in need of
English Synonyms and Antonyms
want
Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.
Synonyms:
compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgencyAntonyms:
choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertaintyPreposition:
The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
want
Synonyms:
deficiency, lack, failure, insufficiency, scantiness, shortness, omission, neglect, nonproduction, absenceAntonyms:
supply, sufficiency, provision, abundance, production, allowance, supplement, adequacy
Princeton's WordNet
privation, want, deprivation, needinessnoun
a state of extreme poverty
Synonyms:
neediness, need, deprivation, loss, wishing, wish, privation, lack, deficiencylack, deficiency, wantnoun
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
"there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
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neediness, need, deprivation, wishing, wish, privation, lack, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiencyneed, wantnoun
anything that is necessary but lacking
"he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
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indigence, need, pauperism, deprivation, demand, pauperization, wish, wishing, privation, deficiency, motive, motivation, lack, neediness, penurywish, wishing, wantverb
a specific feeling of desire
"he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire"
Synonyms:
indirect request, neediness, need, wish, deprivation, wishing, regard, privation, lack, deficiency, complimentsdesire, wantverb
feel or have a desire for; want strongly
"I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"
want, need, requireverb
have need of
"This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
Synonyms:
take, need, require, expect, demand, involve, ask, desire, command, postulate, call for, necessitatewantverb
hunt or look for; want for a particular reason
"Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
wantverb
wish or demand the presence of
"I want you here at noon!"
wantverb
be without, lack; be deficient in
"want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
wantnoun
Synonyms:
deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, meagreness, shortness, dearth, DEFICIT, lack, absence, default, defect, defectiveness, failurewantnoun
Synonyms:
need, necessity, requirement, desideratumwantnoun
wantnoun
Synonyms:
poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, distress, straitswantverb
Synonyms:
lack, be without, be destitute of, be in need ofwantverb
Synonyms:
require, need, have need of, have occasion for, stand in need of, cannot do without, cannot dispense withwantverb
wantverb
Synonyms:
lack, fall, be deficient, fall short, come short
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
wantnoun
Synonyms:
deficiency, lack, dearth, scarcity, need, default, absence, shortness, inadequacy, paucity, insufficiency, scarceness, desideratum, requirement, destitution, distress, straits, privation, indigence, penury, povertywantverb
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#183 | need | |
#246 | take | |
#254 | want | |
#749 | ask | |
#972 | loss | |
#1086 | hope | |
#1089 | wish | |
#1362 | command | |
#1495 | trust | |
#1539 | require | |
#1829 | demand | |
#1909 | emergency | |
#2131 | essential | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2323 | expect | |
#2445 | wants | |
#2498 | lack | |
#3277 | requirement | |
#3876 | regard | |
#4015 | desire | |
#4642 | absence | |
#4927 | gonna | |
#5419 | involve | |
#6067 | wanna | |
#7769 | motivation | |
#7888 | fate | |
#9247 | destiny | |
#9308 | necessity | |
#9974 | wishing | |
#10765 | deficiency | |
#11158 | neglect | |
#15492 | envy | |
#16157 | urgency | |
#16399 | requisite | |
#16875 | motive | |
#17829 | omission | |
#19035 | compliments | |
#19109 | deprivation | |
#22961 | wasnt | |
#29276 | fatality | |
#30283 | extremity | |
#31954 | insufficiency | |
#37781 | shortness | |
#37799 | compulsion | |
#39203 | necessitate | |
#43809 | inadequacy | |
#48394 | postulate | |
#112192 | privation | |
#115959 | exigency | |
#168469 | penury | |
#190200 | nonproduction | |
#210874 | indigence | |
#229574 | neediness | |
#265185 | indispensability | |
#296270 | wantto | |
#316503 | pauperism |
How to use want in a sentence?
I have a room-mate from mainland China and we don't talk about politics because we'd argue, but for me, Hong Kong and Taiwan are like brothers, and I want to help.
We’re very conscious — we have a number of Quebecers in our organization, we know we have 8 million opponents that we will need to beat if we want to win the Stanley Cup.
We have been less than fully active largely because we didn't understand the problem and because we were enamored by the success of digital to the marketing industry, we want to ensure that everyone has accountability.
Look,we've gone for monthsto these school board meetings andas parents, you know, our voicewasn't being heard, and so what happened was, when Igot up there, you know, my bloodstarted boiling a little bit.And as I began speaking, I said,'Look, I want them to hearme.I want them to look up and payattention,'andI think we’ve got someacknowledgment from that.
People are so burnt out, they're not working overtime when it's available. They'll allow( working) overtime on days off but people just come to the point, they don't want to be here more than they have to be, i don't blame people who want to give money to social workers. Public education has failed, and parenting.
Translations for want
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- wilAfrikaans
- quererAragonese
- أراد, رغب, تريدArabic
- istəməkAzerbaijani
- жада́ць, хаце́ць, пажада́ць, захаце́цьBelarusian
- и́скам, жела́яBulgarian
- wantemBislama
- চাওয়াBengali
- volerCatalan, Valencian
- vulèCorsican
- chtítCzech
- хотѣтиOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- eisiauWelsh
- ville, kræveDanish
- Mangel, Not, wollenGerman
- θέλωGreek
- voliEsperanto
- afán, desear, querer, faltaSpanish
- tahtma, soovimaEstonian
- nahi izanBasque
- تنگدستی, نیاز, آرزو, خواستن, خواست, بینواییPersian
- köyhyys, haluta, puute, tahtoaFinnish
- vinakataFijian
- vouloir, pauvreté, besoin, misère, manque, avoir envieFrench
- is mian le, díothachtIrish
- easbhaidh, gainne, cion, iarr, gainneadScottish Gaelic
- quererGalician
- רָצָהHebrew
- चाहनाHindi
- akarHungarian
- պակաս, ուզել, ուզենալ, կարիքArmenian
- volerInterlingua
- ingin, mau, hendakIndonesian
- volar, dezirarIdo
- viljaIcelandic
- povertà, volere, miseria, mancanzaItalian
- たい, 欲する, 望む, 欲しい, たがるJapanese
- სურვილიGeorgian
- келу, тілеуKazakh
- ចង់, ចង់បានKhmer
- 원하다, 바라다, 빌다, 싶다Korean
- viyan, خواستن, xwestinKurdish
- келүү, қалау, каалооKyrgyz
- desidero, volo, careoLatin
- ຢາກ, ຕ້ອງການ, ເອົາLao
- norė́tiLithuanian
- gribēt, vēlētiesLatvian
- са́каMacedonian
- дурлахMongolian
- hendak, mahu, inginMalay
- riedMaltese
- အလို, လိုBurmese
- tekort, willenDutch
- ønske, mangel, ville, behovNorwegian
- volerOccitan
- chcieć, życzyćPolish
- desejar, querer, afãPortuguese
- munayQuechua
- vuler, vulair, ler, leir, vuleirRomansh
- vrea, lipsăRomanian
- захоте́ть, нищета, бедность, отсутствие, пожела́ть, желание, недостаток, нужда, жела́ть, потребность, хоте́тьRussian
- bòliri, bòlliri, chèrrere, bolliSardinian
- hteti, хтети, htjeti, хтјетиSerbo-Croatian
- අඩුව පවතිනවාSinhala, Sinhalese
- chcieťSlovak
- hotetiSlovene
- doAlbanian
- batlaSouthern Sotho
- brist, viljaSwedish
- కోరిక, కోరుకొను, వాంఛించు, వాంఛTelugu
- хостанTajik
- อยาก, เอา, ต้องการThai
- gereklemek, islemekTurkmen
- magustohanTagalog
- istek, istemekTurkish
- теләргәTatar
- бажа́ти, хоті́тиUkrainian
- چاہناUrdu
- istamoq, xohlamoqUzbek
- muốn, cầnVietnamese
- vilönVolapük
- voleurWalloon
- וועלןYiddish
- 想Chinese
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