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
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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?
When someone does something wrong, there has to be consequences. We want to build our players' characters... and explain that there are consequences for your actions.
When I hear alien, I think of another planet — that’s what we use that word for. Not people, just because they’re from another country, i want to see them become citizens. They deserve it, and we need to see it happen very soon.
If our customers want to do something for the air show, we'll do something special with them, have fun with them...But we are having a good year; I like where we are.
In the moments where you want to be at your best, it's like it's just magic when it happens, but ... we're putting in the work every day.
I would encourage you, Mr. President, if you want to insult me, come back and insult me to my face, let's have a debate on Syrian refugees right now.
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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