Phonetics:
Meanings:
verb
Definition: To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
Example: What do you want to eat? I want you to leave. I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
Definition: (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
Example: Danish police want him for embezzlement.
Definition: To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
Example: You can leave if you want.
Definition: (usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
Example: You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
Definition: (now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
Example: That chair wants fixing.
Definition: (now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
Definition: To be lacking or deficient or absent.
Example: There was something wanting in the play.
Definition: To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
Example: The paupers desperately want.
Definition: To lack and be without, to not have (something).
Example: She wanted anything she needed.
Definition: (by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.
adjective
Definition: Wished for; desired; sought
Definition: Subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.