want

Study(23)

/wɒnt/

noun 6verb 5name 1

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

human

VERB + WANT

meet, satisfy, see to

The store manager worked hard to meet the customers' wants and keep them happy.

PREP

for ~ of

The small business failed for want of sufficient capital to expand.

in ~

Many families in rural areas lived in want during the economic crisis.

(verb.)

ADV

badly, desperately, really

just, only, simply

She only wants to finish her homework before dinner.

genuinely, truly

If you genuinely want to improve your English, you need to practice every day.

always

She has always wanted to travel around the world since she was a child.

PHRASES

all you want

You can eat as much cake as you want at the party.

exactly/just what you want

Definitions

verb

To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

I want you as a friend, not a foe.

What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.

To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.

Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.

To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.

Danish police want him for embezzlement.

To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

You can leave if you want.

TYRION: You don't want it? BRAN: I don't really want anymore.

To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).

You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.

noun

A desire, wish, longing.

After a search which produced most of the things on our wants list, we went down to picnic on the shore in the sunshine-with a good stretch of shingle behind us over which no triffid could approach unheard.

Lack, absence, deficiency.

She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.

[H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.

Poverty.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

noun

A mole (Talpa europea).

Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a specific feeling of desire

wish
wishing

noun — anything that is necessary but lacking

need

noun — the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

noun — a state of extreme poverty

verb — have need of

verb — feel or have a desire for

desire

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

I want to know

A request for information.

Could you please tell me where to catch the bus? / Well, where are you going? What do you really want to know?

waste not, want not

If one is not wasteful then one will not be in need.

Besides these, there were some little pleasures in the shape of helping her to vegetable she didn't want, and when it had nearly alighted on her plate, taking it across for his own

if you want a thing done well, do it yourself

It is better to do something oneself than to rely on others to do it well.

I want to go to the toilet

Indicates that the speaker feels the urge to go the toilet.

I want my money back

Said to demand a refund for a product or service.

Example Bank

I want you as a friend, not a foe.

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What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.

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And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said t

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She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.

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[H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, want is marked as colloquial, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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