Wants

//wɑnts//

Synonyms for "wants" (289 found)

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incompleteness indigence indispensable inexactitude inexactness insufficiency intellectual curiosity interval itch itch to keen kick the beam lacuna lag libido like like to long long to look for

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lose ground love love to lust lust after lust for learning meagerness mean mediocrity mendicancy mind miss missing link moneylessness must item necessaries necessities necessitousness necessity need for need to neediness neverness nonexistence nonoccurrence nonpresence not answer not approach not come near not compare not hack it not make it not make out not measure up not qualify not stretch not suffice nowhereness occasion omission outage pant passion patchiness pauperism pauperization penury pinch play second fiddle please pleasure pleasure principle poor poorness poverty prefer prerequire prerequirement prerequisite rank under requirement requisite requisition run short run short of scantiness search serve set one's heart on sexual desire shortage shortcoming shortfall sketchiness skimpiness slump starvation starve stop short subserve subtraction take doing take to the necessary the needful thirst for knowledge ullage undevelopment unevenness unperfectedness unsoundness urge want doing want to wantage wanting way will will and pleasure wish fulfillment wish to wish to goodness wish very much without would fain do would like yearn

Verb(9 words)

jones lack like require set one's heart on thirst wish wish for would like

Noun(8 words)

lack need neediness privation scarcity wantfulness wish wishing

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Everyone wants to meet you. You're famous!

Source: tatoeba (1468)

Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.

Source: tatoeba (1583)

Who wants some hot chocolate?

Source: tatoeba (1706)

There are days where I feel like my brain wants to abandon me.

Source: tatoeba (1830)

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