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want - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: want
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: desire
Synonyms: appetite, craving, demand, fancy, hankering, hunger, longing, necessity, need, requirement, thirst, wish, yearning, yen
Notes: wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need
Antonyms: dislike, hate, disinterest
Main Entry: want
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire
Synonyms: ache, aspire, choose, covet, crave, fancy, hanker*, hunger, long, lust, need, pine, prefer, require, thirst, wish, yearn, be greedy, could do with, desiderate, feel a need, have a passion for, have a yen for, have ambition, have an urge for, have eyes for, incline toward, itch for, spoil for
Antonyms: despise, dislike, hate
Main Entry: want
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lack, need
Synonyms: absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, destitution, exigency, famine, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, meagerness, paucity, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, exiguousness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, pauperism, scantiness, skimpiness
Antonyms: abundance, plenty
Main Entry: want
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lack, need
Synonyms: call for, demand, miss, require, be deficient, be deprived of, be found wanting, be insufficient, be poor, be short of, be without, fall short in, have need of, stand in need of, starve
Antonyms: have
Main Entry: aim
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: point or direct at a goal
Synonyms: address, angle, aspire, attempt, cast, concentrate, contemplate, covet, design, direct, endeavor, essay, fix, focus, intend, level, mean, plan, propose, purpose, set one's sights on, sight, slant, steer, strive, target, train, try, want, wish, zero in on, zoom in
Main Entry: aspire
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: aim, hope
Synonyms: crave, desire, dream, hanker, long, pursue, seek, strive, struggle, try, want, wish, yearn, be ambitious, be eager
Main Entry: call for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: demand; entail
Synonyms: inquire, involve, lack, necessitate, need, occasion, request, require, suggest, want, ask for
Main Entry: choose
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pick, select
Synonyms: accept, adopt, appoint, call for, cast, co-opt, commit oneself, crave, cull, decide on, designate, desire, determine, discriminate between, draw lots, elect, embrace, espouse, excerpt, extract, fancy, favor, feel disposed to, finger, fix on, glean, judge, love, make choice, make decision, make up one's mind, name, opt for, predestine, prefer, see fit, separate, set aside, settle upon, sift out, single out, slot, sort, tab, tag, take, take up, tap, want, weigh, will, winnow, wish, wish for
Main Entry: covet
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire strongly
Synonyms: begrudge, choose, crave, envy, fancy, want, wish for, aspire to, desiderate, hanker for, have eye on, have hots for, itch for, long for, lust after, spoil for, thirst for, yearn for, yen for
Antonyms: abjure, give, be generous, not want
Main Entry: dearth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insufficiency, scarcity
Synonyms: absence, default, defect, deficiency, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, shortage, want, exiguousness, rareness, scantiness, scantness, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness
Antonyms: abundance, excess, plenty, sufficiency, plentifulness
Main Entry: deficiency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imperfection, inadequacy
Synonyms: absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness
Antonyms: adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness
Main Entry: demand
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: question, request
Synonyms: appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation
Antonyms: grant, offer, reply
Main Entry: deprivation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taking, keeping away; need
Synonyms: denial, destitution, detriment, disadvantage, distress, hardship, loss, privation, removal, seizure, want, withdrawal, withholding, deprival, dispossession, divestiture, divestment, expropriation
Antonyms: endowment, giving, indulgence, offer, offering, presentation, supply, bestowal
Main Entry: drought
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dryness; shortage of supply
Synonyms: dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, scarcity, want, aridity, dehydration, desiccation, dry spell, parchedness, rainlessness
Antonyms: monsoon, wetness
Main Entry: envy
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be jealous of another
Synonyms: be envious, begrudge, covet, crave, desire, die over, eat one's heart out, grudge, hanker, have hard feelings, hunger, long, lust, object to, resent, thirst, turn green, want, yearn
Antonyms: be confident, be content
Main Entry: exigency/exigence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difficulty; demand
Synonyms: acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle*, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour*, criticalness, demandingness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness
Antonyms: ease, easiness, ordinariness
Main Entry: famine
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hunger
Synonyms: dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want
Antonyms: feast, plenty, supply, stores
Main Entry: go without
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deny or be denied
Synonyms: abstain, do without, lack, need, want, be deprived of, fall short, go short
Antonyms: earn, get, indulge, take, use
Main Entry: hanker after/hanker for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire strongly
Synonyms: ache, covet, crave, hunger, itch, long, lust, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, yen, partial to
Antonyms: dislike, hate
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