Want

Definition: Want

Want

Noun

1. A state of extreme poverty.

2. 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".

3. Anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants".

4. A specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire".

Verb

1. Feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now; "I want my own room".

2. Have need of: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner".

3. Wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!".

4. Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason: "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you".

5. Be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "want" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Business

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Want

Desire

Noun: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency.

Desideratum; want; (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.

Inferiority

Verb: be inferior; Adjective: fall short of, come short of; not pass, not come up to; want.

Insufficiency

Scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.

Poverty

Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

Requirement

Verb: require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with; prerequire.

Desideratum; (desire); want; (deficiency).

Shortcoming

Verb:, come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short, fall short, stop short; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the mark, keep within the compass.

Crosswords: Want

Afrikaan (as, because, for, since), Dutch (as, because, for, since), German (shroud).

I drink when I want to. (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Possibly, but you don't want to be unemployed (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Nobody's gonna want to issue you a policy after this (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Shh! Do you want to frighten our little daughter (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Aren't you hungry, honey? You want me to fix you something (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

Don't want to close my eyes (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH)

Do you, do you, do you, do you want to dance (Do You Want To Dance; performing artist: Bette Midler)

All I want is you, come over here baby (Come On Over (All I Want Is You) (Radio Edit); performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

Do you really want to make me cry (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me; performing artist: Culture Club)

And girls they want to have fun ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. (references; author: Woody Allen)

If the people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. (references; author: Yogi Berra)

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Honk if you want to see my finger! (references; author: unknown)

Where there's a will, I want to be in it. (references; author: unknown)

All I Want Is You... and You... and You... (1974)

I Want What I Want (1972)

Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966)

Prologue: The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint (1965)

Do You Want Success? (1964)

I Don't Want To Live Without You (performing artist: Foreigner)

I Want To Know What Love Is (performing artist: Foreigner)

I Want Your Sex (performing artist: George Michael)

Don't Want To Lose You (performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

I Don't Want Our Loving To Die (performing artist: The Hard)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Want Want Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat (reference)

• Take On the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know (reference)

• If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit (reference)

• The 21 Indispensable Qualities Of A Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow (reference)

• So You Want to Be a Wise Guy: Tracher's Manual (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Want Advertiser (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want (reference)

• Tamilee Webb's I Want That Body (reference)

• What Women Want (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• All We Want [EP] [ENHANCED] (reference)

• Got What We Want (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• So You Want To Be A Genius? (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Want to learn more about your favorite star or galaxy? NASA Hubble Space Telescope pictures ... Credit: NASA.

Dredge sample on deck - all hands want to see what's there On the bow of the SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"We don't want to inhale nicotine" says the child on this Soviet poster. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Novosti..

...They cry, who want it; having it they laugh. / [John Collier] Thos. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Sold for want of use. Credit: Library of Congress.

I want you to understand, sir, that my pride forbids me to accept anything from you after I marry your daughter ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Dog: please your Honor, I want to change my name from Dachschund to French Bull. Credit: Library of Congress.

Does Polly want a cracker?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Intolerance: want of toleration of the opinions or beliefs of others (Webster's). Credit: Library of Congress.

Group of African Americans, posed in front of building, many children in uniforms, some with musical instruments, and a sign reading "Do you want to vote?--Register here April 13, 1948". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war, both where there is, and is not, a common judge. (Second Treatise of Government)

They want to improve the condition of every member of society, even that of the most favoured. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

One can see that she feels the want of encouragement

But we want to see him.

We choose this time because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices

"Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out!"

Either from want of time or indifference she no longer washed her linen

He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought

We want to hear about that

I want more uncles here to welcome me.

But I want to get ahead anyway

Therefore he desired I would let him know what these costly meats were, and how any of us happened to want them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

I don't want to lose control. (references)

Use contraception if you do not want to become pregnant. (references)

Here are some points you may want to discuss with your doctor. (references)

Business

Managers and lenders often want the current ratio to be 2.00 or greater. (references)

Many think they have seen what is to seen in Europe and want to go further. (references)

Household end users want Internet, TV and Voice altogether in a accessible price. (references)

Children

Sierra Leone

Locating the families of released child combatants often was difficult, and some did not want to assume responsibility for their children, some of whom were mentally and emotionally incapable of rejoining their families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Honduras

Parents who do not want their children to listen to the readings may notify school authorities in writing. (references)

Finland

Those who do not want to pay the tax must inform the applicable state church that they are leaving that church. (references)

Economic History

Portugal

Your customers want to get to know you before they will trust you. (references)

Netherlands

With seafood in specifically, consumers want a clean, dry package. (references)

Hungary

Meat processors need imported beef and edible offals, hotels want high quality beef. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

The Government alleged that terrorist groups forced weaker members to conduct the hunger strikes and threatened family members of those who want to quit. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The LIDHO and the MIDH, which monitor human rights conditions in prisons, do not have authorization to visit prisons without advance notice; LIDHO and MIDH usually must write to the prison warden if they want to visit inmates. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

Few indigenous persons hold title to their land, but many do not want to because most indigenous groups reject the concept of individual property. (references)

Minorities

Panama

These established Chinese generally do not want to be associated with the recent arrivals from China. (references)

Slovak Republic

For example, 66 percent of the population would not want to have a Roma neighbor, compared to 86 percent in a 1999 poll. (references)

Slovak Republic

Ethnic Hungarians claim many ethnic Hungarian students choose to attend university in Budapest because they want to study in Hungarian. (references)

Political Economy

Ecuador

In 1998, Ecuador approved landmark legislation to strengthen protection of the Galapagos Islands and, in 1999, issued implementing regulations, although Galapagos protection still remains under-funded and under siege from interest groups, including fishermen who want to harvest the rich surrounding waters. (references)

Swaziland

Although the Government continued formally to profess an intention to reform the current system, it took no action to do so. In August the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) issued its report with recommendations for a new constitution that concluded that most citizens want a continuation and strengthening of the current system. (references)

Political Rights

Swaziland

In general the report concluded that most Swazis want a continuation of the status quo, a strengthening of the King's powers, a continued ban against political parties, greater emphasis on traditional law and custom, and stiffer penalties for those who speak against the state. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

Many Vietnamese just do not want the bank, the government and others to know the value of their assets. (references)

Mexico

This type of L.C. is used when the exporter and his supplier want to finance only their portions of the transaction. (references)

Tanzania

Bonded warehouses are also available and are currently in use by importers who want to hold products and goods until the buyers pay tax and duty. (references)

Travel

West Bank

Long-term business visitors may want to rent a car and driver. (references)

Chad

Travelers may want to confirm the dates of these holidays before traveling. (references)

Senegal

U.S. visitors who plan to stay in Dakar for some days may want to rent a car and driver. (references)

Worker Rights

Iceland

The clubs are allowed to bring in as many dancers as they want. (references)

Lithuania

Enforcement of the minimum wage is almost nonexistent, in part because the Government does not want to exacerbate unemployment. (references)

Iceland

Citing the suspicious circumstances under which these dancers come and work in Iceland, the IFL said it did not want to assist unwittingly in human trafficking. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Liers in want

Expressions using "want": be in want ♦ be in want of ♦ be in want of smth. ♦ do you want any more wine? ♦ do you want smth. else? ♦ for want of ♦ for want of money ♦ from want of ♦ i don't want to! ♦ i only want you to be happy ♦ i want a berth ♦ i want a couchette ♦ i want a receipt ♦ i want a taxi ♦ i want some water ♦ i want to call ♦ i want to eat ♦ i want to eat smth. ♦ if you want a thing done do it your self ♦ in want ♦ in want of ♦ in want of repair ♦ no longer want ♦ not to want ♦ supply a want ♦ they want ♦ want ad ♦ want ads ♦ want back ♦ want badly ♦ want for ♦ want for nothing ♦ want in ♦ want list ♦ want of backbone ♦ want of belief ♦ want of capital ♦ want of care ♦ want of confidence vote ♦ want of faith ♦ want of food ♦ want of habit ♦ want of initiative ♦ want of originality ♦ want of practice ♦ want of readiness ♦ want of sense ♦ want of tact ♦ want of thought ♦ want out ♦ want patience ♦ want smth. badly ♦ want snuffing ♦ want to do ♦ want to know ♦ want to talk to ♦ we want actions not talk ♦ whistle for want of thought ♦ you want smth. else. Additional references.

Beginning with "want": Want-ads, want-away, want-creation, want-me, want-would.

Ending with "want": take-what-you-want, w-w-w-want.

Containing "want": father-i-want-to-kill-you, i-can-do-anything-i-want-any-time-i-want-and-make-you-like-it, it's-four-o'clock-so-i-must-want-a-biscuit, i-want-you-back.

Afrikaans

wil (be, be willing to, do want, will, willingness, wish, would), behoefte (need), begeerte (avidity, covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, wish). (various references)

Albanian

dua (aim, appreciate, be fond of, be keen on, be willing to, care, care for, choose, do with, fancy, intend, like, love, please, seek, take a fancy to, wish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, ruin), ‏موطن ضعف (shortcoming, weakness), ‏نقيصة (demerit, fault, infirmity, vice, weakness), ‏حاجة (bareness, deficiency, necessity, need, poverty, requirement), ‏تعين (behove, establishing, make sure, posting, staffing), ‏تطلب (ask, call, call for, claim, demand, exact, need, require, take), ‏تاق (ache, aim, aspire, crave, desire, gasp, hanker, hone, hunger, pant, wish, yearn), ‏عيب (blemish, blot, blotch, deformity, demerit, disgrace, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, infirmity, shortcoming, stain, vice), ‏عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation), ‏طارد (bouncer, chase, course, dog, evictor, expeller, fly, give chase, go after, hound, hunt, prosecute, pursue, repellent, run, run down), ‏إحتاج (crave, demand, lack, need, require, run out), ‏أصبح فريسة الفاقة, ‏أراد (care, choose, intend, will, wish, would), ‏رغب (care, choose, crave, desire, feel like, give the willies, interest, will, wish). (various references)

Asturian

querer (to want). (various references)

Basque

nahi. (various references)

Bemba

ukufwaya (to want). (various references)

Blackfoot

sstaa (to want). (various references)

Breton

fellout (to want), fellfe (it would want). (various references)

Bulgarian 

желая (desiderate, desire, like, list, will, wish, would), искам (ask, call for, choose, demand, desire, like, list, please, postulate, request, require, seek, tax, will, wilt, wish, would), поисквам (ask for, claim, demand, wish), пожелавам (covet, crave, will, wish), потребност (necessity, need, requisite), бедност (destitution, necessity, pauperism, poorness, poverty), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage), липсва ми (lack), липсвам (fail, lack), изисквам (call for, claim, command, demand, desiderate, enforce, enjoin, exact, indicate, necessitate, postulate, require, take), лишение (pinch, privation), трябва ми, не достигам, не ми достига (lack), недостиг (deficit, famine, insufficiency, lack, privation, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, ullage), необходимо е (it is necessary), нямам (get no, have no, lack, not get, not have, want for), нямане (lack), нужда (call, destitution, distress, hardship, necessary, necessity, need, pinch, privation, requirement, use), нуждая се от (be in want of, call for, lack, need, require), трябва (be obliged to, have, have to, must, need, ought, should, take), лишен съм от (lack). (various references)

Catalan

desig (desire, wish). (various references)

Cebuano

magtinguha (to want). (various references)

Chamorro

para man malagó (to want). (various references)

Chinese 

要 (Wanted, Wanting), 甘心 (be satisfied). (various references)

Cornish

mynnes (to want). (various references)

Croatian

htio, želim (wish), æu, æete (will). (various references)

Czech

chtít (choose, intend, mean, please, wish). (various references)

Danish

ville (be willing to, wish, would), ønske (desire, wish). (various references)

Dutch

zin (acceptation, contention, desire, disposal, feel, feeling, inclination, intention, meaning, opinion, plan, pleasure, sensation, sense, sentence, tendency, will, willingness, wish), willen (be willing to, want to have, wish), wens (desire, wish), verlangen (ache, desire, long for, longing, wish, yearn), lust (desire, disposal, inclination, lust, passion, sexual pleasure, tendency, wish), begeerte (alacrity, avidity, covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, wish). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

munana (to want). (various references)

Esperanto

voli (be willing to, wish), deziro (desire, wish), deziras, bezono (need). (various references)

Estonian

taha. (various references)

Faeroese

ynski (desire, wish), vilja (be willing to, wish). (various references)

Farsi 

فقدان (Absence, Lack, Loss), فاقدبودن (Lack), محتاج بودن , نیازمندبودن به , نیاز (Necessity, Need, Requirement), نقصان (Depletion), نداری , نداشتن (Lack, Miss), کم داشتن (Lack), کسرداشتن , لازم داشتن , عدم (Naught, Nonentity, Nought), خواسته (Desire, Desirous, Request, Wish, Would), خواستن (Ask, Beg, Bone, Call, Choose, Desire, Intend, Solicit, Will, Wish), خواست (Volition, Will, Wish). (various references)

Finnish

tahtoa (be willing, be willing to, desire, intend, like, wish). (various references)

Flemish

wilt (would), willen (like), wil. (various references)

French

vouloir, voulez. (various references)

French Canadian

voulez-vous (do you want), désirez-vous (do you want). (various references)

Frisian

wolle (be willing to, to want, wish), winsk (desire, wish), ferlangst (desire, wish). (various references)

Galician

quero (I want), quere (do you want). (various references)

German

wollen (be willing to, desire, intend, like, ll, need, ordain, will, wish, woolen), brauchen (be in need of smth., be necessary, do with, employ, make use of, need, require, take, to be in need of, turn to account, use, use up), Bedarf (demand, need, needs, requirement, requirements, requisites), Wunsch (desire, request, requirement, will, wish), Mangel (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise), benötigen (need, require, to require), Bedürfnis (appetite, call of nature, desire, necessity, need, requirement, urge, wish). (various references)

Greek 

έλλειψη (absence, dearth, default of, defect, deficiency, ellipse, failing, lack, scarcity, shortage, shortage of, shortcoming), ανάγκη (constraint, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, occasion, requirement, requisiteness), θέλω (shall, will). (various references)

Guarani

roipotami (we want a little bit), revendese (do you want to sell), reipotave (you want more), reipota (you want), rehose (you want to go), peipota (you want), ndaipotavéima (I don't want more), ndaipotái (I don't want), erese (you want to say), ereséva (what you want to say), ajoguase (I want to buy), aipota (I want), ñañomomateisérõ (when we want to greet each other). (various references)

Haitian Creole

vle (like, wish). (various references)

Hawaiian

dua (appreciate, be willing to, like, love, wish), dëshirë (desire, wish). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחסור (deficiency, deprivation, insufficiency, lack, misery, need, paucity, scarceness, scarcity, shortage), לחפוץ (desire, wish), לאבות (be desirous, be willing, consent, desire, wish), להיות זקוק (need), להשתוקק (crave, desire, hanker, hunger, long for, lust, strive, wish for, yearn), לרצות (be willing, desire, like, will, wish), עוני (indigence, meanness, misery, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation), אווי (desire), חסרון (defect, deficiency, disadvantage, drawback, loss, omission, shortcoming), העדר (absence, lack), בקוש (demand, prayer, search), צורך (call, necessity, need, requirement). (various references)

Hungarian

akar (be willing to, meant, to like, to mean, to want, to will, to wish, will, wish), szükséglet (necessity, need, needs, prime necessity, requisite), hiány (absence, blank, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, failure, hiatus, lack, missing, missing link, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, upchuck, wastage). (various references)

Icelandic

vilja (be willing to, wish). (various references)

Indonesian

menginginkan (desire, wish), mencita-cita (wish for), mau (willing), ingin (desirous), hendak (will, wish). (various references)

Inuktitut

pijumaluni (to want). (various references)

Italian

volere (be going, be willing, be willing to, demand, do as one likes, expect, intend, need, please, require, will, wish, woollen), bisogno (lack, necessity, need, requirement), fabbisogno (estimate, need), desiderio (desire, wish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

欠乏 (famine, shortage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けつぼう (famine, shortage). (various references)

Korean 

원하십시요. (various references)

Luganda

tetwagala (we don't want), oyagala (you want). (various references)

Luxembourgish

wëllt, wëlle, wëll. (various references)

Malagasy

te-handeha (want to go). (various references)

Malay

mau (be willing to, wish), keperluan (need). (various references)

Manx

ymmyrch (destitution, exigence, necessity, require), raghtanys (indigence, need, rigour), laccal (deficiency, deficient, desire), feme (exigence, necessity, need, requirement, requisite), dulley (scantiness, scarceness). (various references)

Maori

hiahia-tia (to want). (various references)

Maya

kaat (jar, to want). (various references)

Norwegian

ville (be willing to, wish), vil (will, would), ønske (desire, wish). (various references)

Occitan

voler. (various references)

Papiamen

kier (be willing to, love, wish), kiè (be willing to, love, wish), ke (be willing to, love, wish), deseo (desire, wish), antoho (desire, wish). (various references)

Pidgin English

wan (are going to, to want). (various references)

Pig Latin

antway.(various references)

Polish

pragnienie (desire, wish), chcieć (be willing to, wish), życzenie (desire, wish). (various references)

Portuguese

querer (desire, feel like, like, list, love, will, willing, wish), desejo (appetite, breathing, craving, desirability, desire, elan, fancy, fantasy, list, longing, lust, phantasy, pleasure, will, wish), anseio (anxiety, aspiration, desire, wish). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

quero. (various references)

Provencal

voler (to want). (various references)

Quechua

munankiri (you want). (various references)

Romanian

dori (be willing to, bid, care for, choose, covet, desire, expect, groan, hunger, like, list, request, sigh for, wish). (various references)

Romany

mangàva (to want). (various references)

Ruanda

gushaka (to want). (various references)

Russian 

хотеть (be ~ anxious to, choose, feel like, have the pleasure in, intend, like, want to, wish). (various references)

Samoan

e manao (to want). (various references)

Scottish

uireasbhuidh (indigence, need, poverty), inneadh, iarr (ask, be willing to, look, request, search : dh'iarradh, seek, was, wish), iùnais (wanting, without), feum (must, need, needs must : am feum, use), easbhuidh (awanting, defect : dh' easbhuidh), eàirlig, dìth (deficiency, destruction : a, off her), cion (desire, esteem, love), aonais, aimbeart (distress, indigence, poverty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potreba (call, exigency, need, requisite), oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, necessity, need, penury, privation, scarceness, scarcity, wantage), nužda (necessity, need), nestašica (dearth, lack, paucity, scarceness, scarcity, shortage), nedostatak (blemish, defect, defiance, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage), imati potrebu, hteti (desire, mean, will, wish), želja (appetite, desirability, desire, fancy, wish), želeti (care, desire, like, wish). (various references)

Shona

-da (to want). (various references)

Sicilian

vuliri (to want). (various references)

Somali

rabaa, dooneysaa, doonayno, doonayaa. (various references)

Sotho

batla (seek). (various references)

Spanish

deseo (avidity, covetousness, desideratum, desire, eagerness, greediness, I wish, will, wish, yearning), necesidad (desire, hunger, necessity, need, neediness, pinch, poverty, requirement, starvation, straits), querer (cherish, desiderate, desire, feel like, like, live, love, please, will, wish, woollen). (various references)

Sranan

winsi (desire, hope, wish), wani (be willing to, will, willingness, wish). (various references)

Swahili

haja (need). (various references)

Swedish

vilja (be willing to, care to, choose, have, intend, like, volition, will, willingness, wish), saknad (absence, deficiency, lack, lamented, missing, regret, shortage, shortcoming), sakna (be destitute of, be lacking in, desiderate, lack, lack for, miss, regret), nöd (destitution, distress, necessity, need, neediness), behov (desideratum, lack, necessity, need, needs, requirement, requiring, requirment, requisite), behöva (have to, need, require), önskan (anxiety, desire, pleasure, wish), önska (desire, wish, wish for). (various references)

Tagalog

gustong, gusto (like, would like). (various references)

Tahitian

hina'aro (to want). (various references)

Tswana

batla. (various references)

Turkish

arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, craving, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen). (various references)

Turkmen 

islemek, hajat (need), gereklemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

хотіти (care, choose, desire, please, will, wish), відсутність (absence, destitution, discontinuity, non-availability, nothing, privation), вимагати (ask, call for, challenge, charge, claim, cry for, demand, extort, importune, necessitate, postulate, racketeer, require, sweat out, wring), нужда (destitution, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, privation), необхідність (must, necessity), недостача (absence, dearth, failure, lack, need, non-availability, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness), бути потрібним (need), бідувати (need), бракувати (cast, condemn), бажати (admire, care, choose, desire, please, will, wish), потребувати (affect, cost, crave, need, require, suppose), потреба (demand, hunger, necessity, need, requirement). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thiếu (dearth, default, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, scantiness, shortage), sự khuyết sự cần, sự không có (default, inexistence, nothing), những cái cần thiết cảnh túng thiếu, cảnh nghèo. (various references)

Welsh

eisiau (lack, need). (various references)

Wolof

bëgge, bëgg. (various references)

Xhosa

ufuna (You want), asifuni (We don't want). (various references)

Yucatec

taak (be willing to, wish). (various references)

Zulu

-funa (be willing to, wish). (various references)

anhelo, careo, desiderabant, desiderabat, desiderabis, desiderabit, desiderabunt, desideramus, desiderans, desiderant, desiderantes, desiderantibus, desiderantis, desiderantium, desiderare, desideras, desiderasti, desiderastis, desiderat, desiderati, desideratus, desideraveram, desideraverat, desideraveris, desideraverunt, desideravi, desideravimus, desideravit, desideres, desideret, desidero, dipundio, egebunt, egemus, egens, egent, egentem, egentes, egenti, egentis, egentium, egeo, egere, egerem, egeris, egestas, egestate, egestatem, egestatis, eget, eguerunt, fame, famem, fames, fami, famis, ineruditionis, inhio, inopia, inopiae, inopiam, nuditas, nuditate, nuditatem, nuditatis, opto, penuria, penuria, penurium, penuriam, sis, velim, velint, velis, velit, velitis, velle, vellem, vellent, vellet, volebam, volebamus, volebant, volebas, volebat, volens, volensque, volente, volentes, volenti, volentibus, volentis, voles, volet, volo, voluerant, voluerat, voluerim, voluerimus, voluerint, volueris, voluerisque, voluerit, volueritis, volueritque, voluero, voluerunt, volui, voluimus, voluisse, voluissem, voluissent, voluisses, voluisset, voluisti, voluistis, voluit, voluitque, volumus, volunt, volvere, volvi, volvit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "want": wantage, wantages, wanted, wanter, wanters, wanting, wanton, wantoned, wantoner, wantoners, wantoning, wantonly, wantonness, wantonnesses, wantons, wants. (additional references)

Words ending with "want": seawant. (additional references)

Words containing "want": seawants, unwanted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Want" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awant, bwint, eant, iant, iwent, kwan, twant, Waana, wadt, waet, Wahn, waint, wamt, Wana, wani, wanna, wanny, wano, wanq, wanta, wante, wanto, wanz, wapt, waqtt, wasnt, wat, wato, waunt, wayn, wayt, wendt, wente, wento, wentz, whant, winet, winot, winst, wint, witn, wnat, wnt, wrant, wunt, wwent, wyan, yant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ant, awn, naw, tan, taw, twa, wan, wat.

-2 letters: an, at, aw, na, ta.

+1 letter: tawny, twain, twang, wants, witan.

+2 letters: atwain, atween, tawing, tawney, thrawn, twains, twangs, twangy, twanky, walnut, wanted, wanter, wanton.

+3 letters: antiwar, batwing, bawsunt, dawting, fanwort, outfawn, outgnaw, ringtaw, seawant, stewpan, tawneys, tawnier, tawnies, tawnily, tawsing, thawing, tinware, twanged, twanger, twangle, vawntie, wafting, waiting, walnuts, waniest, wannest, wantage, wanters, wanting, wantons, warrant, wasting, wetland, whatnot, wheaten.