What is another word for wanting?
430 synonyms found
What do you want from life?
What do you want in a partner?
What do you want from me?
What do you want from your career?
What do you want from the future?
Pronunciation:
[ wˈɒntɪŋ], [ wˈɒntɪŋ], [ w_ˈɒ_n_t_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: want to, want to be, what do you want, what are you wanting, I want, I want a, I want to go
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Similar words for wanting:
- absent (adjective)
- below par (adjective)
- bereft (adjective)
- defective (adjective)
- deficient (adjective)
- deprived (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- failing (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- missing (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- poverty-stricken (adjective)
- scant/scanty (adjective)
- scarce (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- short-handed (adjective)
- slender/slim (adjective)
- unfinished (adjective)
- wanting (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- wishing (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- desiring (verb)
- hoping (verb)
- lacking (verb)
- requesting (verb)
- other synonyms
- seeking
- understaffed
Synonyms for Wanting:
adj.
• absent (adjective)- hollow,
- truant,
- out,
- away,
- no-show,
- departed,
- minus,
- nonexistent,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- abstract,
- elsewhere,
- gone,
- wanting,
- blank,
- void,
- Omitted,
- Non-existent,
- empty,
- unavailable.
- abnormal,
- blemished,
- out of order,
- unhealthy,
- injured,
- seconds,
- sick,
- subnormal,
- amiss,
- damaged,
- on the bum,
- impaired.
- exiguous,
- found wanting,
- marred,
- unequal,
- cut off,
- unassembled,
- not up to scratch,
- meager,
- unsatisfactory,
- not enough,
- not cut out for,
- not make it,
- substandard,
- outta gas,
- needed,
- bad,
- second string,
- second fiddle,
- rarest,
- third string,
- infrequent,
- remiss.
- deserted,
- uninhabited,
- abandoned,
- deflated,
- depleted,
- evacuated,
- despoiled,
- exhausted,
- Vacated,
- waste,
- unoccupied,
- forsaken,
- godforsaken,
- unfilled,
- dry,
- dead.
- more rattleboned,
- scrimpiest,
- more stinted,
- most stinted,
- skin bones,
- more beanstalk,
- most beanstalk,
- un-fruitful,
- in-considerable,
- scrimpest,
- most rattleboned,
- lithe,
- scrimpier,
- in-fertile,
- more broomstick,
- scraggier,
- skimpest,
- most beanpole,
- un productive,
- in substantial,
- more beanpole,
- more starved,
- un fruitful,
- un-productive,
- in fertile,
- most broomstick,
- in-substantial,
- in considerable.
- more disappeared,
- mis-laid,
- left out,
- dis-appeared,
- dis appeared,
- most disappeared,
- more away,
- most away,
- nowhere be found,
- re moved,
- mis laid,
- mis placed,
- mis-placed.
- deprived,
- left behind,
- scant,
- skimpy,
- few and far between,
- off-form,
- shy,
- half done,
- impencunious,
- semioccasional,
- in the making,
- seldom met with,
- parted from,
- bare,
- left without,
- unconcluded,
- Requesting,
- below par,
- unaccounted for,
- in want,
- not oneself,
- dirt poor,
- broomstick,
- unfinished,
- at a premium,
- defective,
- beanstalk,
- unfurnished,
- flawed,
- scraggy,
- weak,
- uncompleted,
- deficient,
- miserably poor,
- under construction,
- poverty-stricken,
- skimper,
- moneyless,
- scanty,
- scraggiest,
- barely sufficient,
- in need,
- nowhere to be found,
- stone broke,
- not present,
- scrimpy,
- bereft,
- in the rough,
- in great need; financially poor,
- rattleboned,
- missing,
- scarce,
- scrimper,
- skin and bones,
- down and out,
- Unmoneyed,
- half-done,
- Beggared,
- Unaccomplished,
- failing.
- down out,
- poverty stricken,
- most impencunious,
- most moneyless,
- most unmoneyed,
- povertystricken,
- needful,
- more impencunious,
- dis tressed,
- un-moneyed,
- more moneyless,
- un moneyed,
- more unmoneyed,
- in dire circumstances,
- more suffering,
- most suffering,
- dis-tressed.
- most seldom,
- semi-occasional,
- semi occasional,
- at premium,
- most shortened,
- more seldom,
- most semioccasional,
- most truncated,
- un commoner,
- un commonest,
- in short supply,
- more semioccasional,
- more truncated,
- un-common,
- few far between,
- un usual,
- un-commoner,
- un-usual,
- more shortened,
- un common.
- in making,
- un fulfilled,
- most unexecuted,
- more dabbling,
- un-perfected,
- un executed,
- more uncompleted,
- most unfashioned,
- most half done,
- un refined,
- un-refined,
- more half done,
- Unfashioned,
- un-concluded,
- unadorned,
- most roughhewn,
- more halfdone,
- un accomplished,
- more unfashioned,
- un-fashioned,
- unfulfilled,
- un-developed,
- more unaccomplished,
- un polished,
- more half-done,
- more roughhewn,
- more unconcluded,
- more unfulfilled,
- Unexecuted,
- most halfdone,
- most dabbling,
- un concluded,
- un perfected,
- un-finished,
- un completed,
- most unaccomplished,
- in rough,
- roughhewn,
- un-completed,
- most half-done,
- un-adorned,
- un-fulfilled,
- un fashioned,
- un finished,
- un-accomplished,
- un done,
- halfdone,
- un adorned,
- more unexecuted,
- most unfulfilled,
- not done,
- un-executed,
- most unconcluded,
- most uncompleted.
n.
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- absence.
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- excess.
- measly,
- supply,
- little,
- shortfall,
- fall,
- gold dust,
- devoid,
- paltry,
- few,
- rare,
- need,
- scantily,
- go round,
- poor,
- under-represented,
- do without (sth),
- deficiency,
- insufficiency,
- short,
- scarcity,
- absent,
- thin,
- nearly,
- sparse,
- needy,
- paucity,
- do 1,
- rarity,
- meagre,
- inadequacy,
- go,
- long,
- shortage,
- time-poor,
- time,
- one,
- inadequate,
- under,
- lousy,
- lacking,
- lack,
- scrub,
- starve,
- mingy,
- overstretched,
- unsatisfied,
- peanut,
- destitute,
- insufficient,
- late,
- nuanced,
- poverty,
- dearth.
v.
• desiring (verb)- welcoming,
- longing,
- craving,
- hankering,
- grasping,
- Hungering,
- pining,
- Fancying,
- Lusting,
- Needing,
- Thirsting,
- itching,
- Coveting.
Other synonyms:
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- short of.
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- lame.
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- incomplete.
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- better.
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- barren.
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- big.
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- innocent.
How to use "Wanting" in context?
There's a lot of different things that people want in life. Some want money, others want love, some want fame, and others want power. Ultimately, what people really want is something that is difficult to obtain, but is undeniably desirable.
The thing that people want the most is security. They want to know that they have something that will protect them and keep them safe. This is why many people want to have a strong relationship with someone. They want to know that they're loved and that someone is willing to protect them.
Another thing that people want is recognition. People want to be known and respected by others.
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
wish.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
desire, willingness.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
desires.
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Noun, singular or mass
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