want

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. need; poverty, indigence; lack, dearth, deficiency, absence; shortage, inadequacy, scarcity; necessity, requirement. —v. lack, need; be in need; require, desire, wish, crave; fall short of, be deficient, miss, omit, neglect, fail. See insufficiency.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Need]

Syn. privation, dearth, shortage, poverty; see lack 1 , 2 , poverty 1 .

2. [DeSire]

Syn. wish, craving, demand; see deSire 1 .

See Synonym Study at poverty . v.

1. [To deSire]

Syn. deSire, require, aspire, hanker after, have an urge for, incline toward, fancy, covet, crave, long for, lust for, have a fondness for, have a passion for, have ambition, thirst after, hunger after, be greedy for, ache*, have a yen for*, have an itch for*.

2. [To lack]

Syn. be deficient in, be deprived of, require; see need .

See Synonym Study at deSire , lack .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

1. desire need, longing, wish, yearning, hunger, thirst, craving, appetite, hankering, requirement, demand.

2. lack absence, need, dearth, shortage, scarcity, deficiency, paucity, privation.

3. poverty destitution, indigence, impoverishment.

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v.

1. desire need, long for, wish for, yearn, hunger for, thirst for, crave, have an appetite for, have a hankering for, require, demand, covet.

2. lack be deficient, be without, require, need.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To have a strong longing for: ache, covet, desire, hanker, long2, pant, pine, wish, yearn. Informal: hone2. See DESIRE. 2. To be without what is needed, required, or essential: lack, need, require. See OWNED. 3. To have the desire or inclination to: choose, desire, like1, please, will, wish. Idioms: have a mind, see fit. See DESIRE. II noun 1. The condition of lacking a needed or usual amount: absence, dearth, lack. See EXCESS. 2. The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penunousness, penury, poverty, privation. See RICH. 3. Something asked for or needed: demand, exigence, exigency (often used in plural), need. See NECESSARY, OVER.