- 2. Inadequacy, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, meagreness, shortness, defectiveness, failure, insufficiency,
deficiency, paucity, poverty.
- 3. Need, necessity, requirement, desideratum.
- 4. Desire, wish, craving, longing.
- 5. Poverty, indigence, penury, need, necessity, destitution, distress, straits, privation.
Want, v. a.
- 1. Lack, be without, be destitute of, be in need of.
- 2. Require, need, have need of, have occasion for, stand in need of, cannot do without cannot dispense
with.
- 3. Desire, wish, crave, wish for, long for.
- 4. Fall short in, lack, be lacking in respect of.
Want, v. n.
- 1. Lack, fail, be deficient, fall short, come short, be lacking.
- 2. Be missed, not to be present.
- 3. Omit, neglect, fail.
Wanting, a.
- 1. Deficient, defective, lacking, absent.
- 2. Slack, deficient, backward, lacking.
Wanton, a.
- 1. Wandering, loose, unrestrained, unchecked, free.
- 2. Luxuriant, exuberant, abounding, rank, rampant, overgrown.
- 3. Sportive, frolicsome, playful, gay, frisky, coltish, airy, skittish.