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want

verb

1 do you want more coffee? | he wants a place in the squad:

desire, wish for, hope for, fancy, have a fancy for, take a fancy to, have an inclination for, care for, like, set one's heart on;

long for, yearn for, pine for, sigh for, crave, hanker after, hunger for, thirst for, lust after, cry out for, be desperate for, itch for, covet, need, be bent on;

informal have a yen for, be dying for.

2 informal his toaster wants repairing:

need, be/stand in need of, require, demand, cry out for.

3 informal you want to be more careful:

should, ought, need, must.

noun

1 millions perished for want of a safe haven | his want of vigilance:

lack, absence, non-existence, unavailability;

dearth, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, paucity, shortage, shortfall, shortness, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, undersupply, deficit;

rare exiguity.

▷antonyms abundance; presence.

2 archaic a time of want:

need, neediness, austerity, privation, deprivation, poverty, impoverishment, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, pennilessness, pauperism, penury, destitution, famine, drought, indigence.

▷antonyms wealth, plenty.

3 she had faith that all her wants would be taken care of:

wish, desire, demand, longing, yearning, fancy, craving, hankering;

need, requirement, necessity, essential, requisite;

informal yen.

want Oxford Dictionary of English