Synonyms for wanted
want·ed

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1. wantedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwanted

2. wantedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwanted

3. wantedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwanted

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. wantedadjective

   desired or wished for or sought

   "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"

   Synonyms:
   precious, treasured, cherished

   Antonyms:
   undesired, unwished-for, abdicable, cast-off(a), casteless, unclaimed, unsought, unwanted, friendless, throwaway(a), unwelcome, outcaste, uncalled-for, discarded, unwished, thrown-away(a), outcast, unloved

2. cherished, precious, treasured, wantedadjective

   characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

   "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"

   Synonyms:
   precious, cute, treasured, valued, cherished

   Antonyms:
   undesired, unwished, unwanted, unloved, throwaway(a), discarded, unwished-for, abdicable, unclaimed, uncalled-for, casteless, outcaste, friendless, outcast, unsought, cast-off(a), thrown-away(a), unwelcome

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "wanted":

   wished, desired, sought, most-wanted, dreamed, liked, wanna

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1. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   For a long time Iran had resisted cooperating with any sort of inspections IAEA wanted to do, and as a result of the international pressure that built up over time, principally because of the tough economic sanctions that the United States put in place and got the rest of the international community to go along with, we now see indications that Iran is cooperating with IAEA inspections.

2. Bill Cassara:

   It’s been 13 years now since I retired, i wanted to talk about the people that influenced my life and career. As someone who is passionate about films, I felt now was the right time to share these stories.

3. George Papadopoulos:

   Comey, the FBI and the Mueller team wanted to make me a fall guy — just essentially, a coup attempt, I mean, I really had the entire world against me at that point.

4. Chessy Prout:

   We wanted to give them the opportunity to withdraw this nomination, we felt strongly that if they just understood what Delaney had done, that they would very quickly pull back this nomination.

5. Casey DeSantis:

   I mean, just think when Trump was president, I mean, you know, you had some of these major legacy outlets ran for years with unproven conspiracy theory about Russia collusion. And that was meant to basically divide the country. They wanted to mobilize against Trump as much as they talk about the 2020. They didn't accept the 2016 election. They wanted to basically nullify that result.