Definition of want

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Want (v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four..

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Athirst :: Athirst (a.) Wanting drink; thirsty.
Implement :: Implement (n.) That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war..
Thin :: Thin (superl.) Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Insipid :: Insipid (a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition..
Dissatisfy :: Dissatisfy (v. t.) To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune..
Invision :: Invision (n.) Want of vision or of the power of seeing.
Practice :: Practice (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice..
Fade :: Fade (a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color..
Skinny :: Skinny (a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh..
Incharity :: Incharity (n.) Want of charity.
Syncytium :: Syncytium (n.) Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle..
Imprevalency :: Imprevalency (n.) Want of prevalence.
Dimness :: Dimness (n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception..
Inscience :: Inscience (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance.
Flaccid :: Flaccid (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh..
Unreality :: Unreality (n.) The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
Emptiness :: Emptiness (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
Enough :: Enough (a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs..
Undiscerning :: Undiscerning (n.) Want of discernment.
Insipid :: Insipid (a.) Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food..
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