want
/wɒnt/
To wish for or desire; to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- he/she/it
- wants
- past
- wanted
- past participle
- wanted
Meanings
- 1
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand
You know what you want.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
I want him to come.
Tatoeba · rul · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.; To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it
- 3
To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with
- 4
To desire (to experience desire); to wish
- 5
To be advised to do or aim for something (compare should, ought)rare
- 6
To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun)rare
- 7
To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or needrare
- 8
To be lacking or deficient or absentrare
- 9
To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lackrare
- 10
To lack and be without, to not have (something)rare