WANTING
/หwษntษชล/
11
Scrabble
14
WWF
W(4) A(1) N(1) T(1) I(1) N(1) G(2)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/หwษntษชล/
verb
- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.“What do you want to eat?โ I want you to leave.โ Iย never wanted to go back to live with my mother.”
- (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.“Danish police want him for embezzlement.”
- To desire (to experience desire); to wish.“You can leave if you want.”
- (usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).“Youโll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.”
- (now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).“That chair wants fixing.”
adjective
- That wants or desires.
- Absent or lacking.
- Deficient.
preposition
- Without, except, but.
- Less, short of, minus.
Source: Wiktionary
