want
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(verb) wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!" |
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Related Words: demand |
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(verb) have need of: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" |
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Synonyms: need, require |
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Related Words: be, cry |
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(verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason: "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you" |
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Related Words: look for, search, seek |
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(verb) be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter" |
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Synonyms: lack |
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Related Words: lack, miss |
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(verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now; "I want my own room" |
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Synonyms: desire |
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Related Words: ambition, begrudge, care, crave, envy, fancy, feel like, go for, hanker, hope, hunger, lech after, like, long, lust, lust after, miss, need, seek, starve, take to, thirst, wish, wish well, yearn |
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(noun) anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" |
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Synonyms: need |
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Related Words: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty |
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Synonyms: deprivation, privation |
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Related Words: impoverishment, poorness, poverty |
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(noun) a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire" |
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Synonyms: wish, wishing |
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Related Words: desire, velleity |
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(noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
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Synonyms: deficiency, lack |
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Related Words: absence, dearth, demand, famine, need, shortage, sideropenia, stringency, tightness |
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