Definition of want

"want" in the noun sense

1. privation, want, deprivation, neediness

a state of extreme poverty

2. lack, deficiency, want

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. need, want

anything that is necessary but lacking

"he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"

"I tried to supply his wants"

4. wish, wishing, want

a specific feeling of desire

"he got his wish"

"he was above all wishing and desire"

"want" in the verb sense

1. desire, want

feel or have a desire for want strongly

"I want to go home now"

"I want my own room"

2. want, need, require

have need of

"This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

3. want

hunt or look for want for a particular reason

"Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"

"Uncle Sam wants you"

4. want

wish or demand the presence of

"I want you here at noon!"

5. want

be without, lack be deficient in

"want courtesy"

"want the strength to go on living"

"flood victims wanting food and shelter"

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Quotations for want

Old foxes want no tutors. [ Proverb ]

Mills and wives ever want. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Angry men seldom want woe. [ Proverb ]

I want to meet my God awake. [ Carlyle ]

Old sacks want much patching. [ Proverb ]

There is no woe like to want. [ Proverb ]

Clean hands want no wash ball. [ Proverb ]

Evil tongues never want a whet. [ Le Sage ]

Ill natures never want a tutor. [ Proverb ]

The rich never want for kindred. [ Proverb ]

Busy-bodies never want a bad day. [ Proverb ]

I neither have, nor want, nor care. [ Motto ]

Babbling curs never want sore ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Brave actions never want a trumpet. [ Proverb ]

Nothing makes men sharper than want. [ Addison ]

The sea complains for want of water. [ Proverb ]

Age and want sit smiling at the gate. [ Pope ]

The more men have, the more they want. [ Justin ]

Land was never lost for want of an heir. [ Proverb ]

Many things are lost for want of asking. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Those who covet much suffer from the want. [ Horace ]

His brains want no barm to make them work. [ Proverb ]

Buyers want an hundred eyes, sellers none. [ Proverb ]

Love is the union of a want and a sentiment. [ Balzac ]

A thing you don't want is dear at any price. [ Proverb ]

The keener the want, the lustier the growth. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. [ Young ]

What makes life dreary is the want of motive. [ George Eliot ]

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. [ William Hazlitt ]

Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. [ William Shakespeare ]

For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. [ French Proverb ]

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow. [ Pope ]

If it should rain porridge he would want a dish. [ Proverb ]

Enjoyment germinates not in abundance but in want. [ Herder ]

The abuse of riches is worse than the want of them. [ Proverb ]

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.

If you want to be missed by your friends, be useful. [ Robert E. Lee ]

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. [ W. R. Alger ]

If I go to heaven, I want to take my reason with me. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]

It is for want of thinking that most men are undone. [ Proverb ]

I will not want when I have it, and have it not too. [ Proverb ]

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. [ Franklin ]

Though love is blind, yet it is not for want of eyes. [ Proverb ]

The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. [ Proverb ]

They agree like bells; they want nothing but hanging. [ Proverb ]

He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]

Good nature is a great misfortune if it want prudence. [ Proverb ]

If the pills were pleasant they would not want gilding. [ Proverb ]

The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things. [ Proverb ]

What the orators want in depth, they give you in length. [ Montesquieu ]

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. [ Proverb ]

It is not want, but rather abundance, that makes avarice. [ Proverb ]

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. [ Confucius ]

Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. [ Publius Syrus ]

Do you want true peace with men? Make your peace with God.

He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. [ Proverb ]

Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love. [ Rochepedre ]

No inheritance can supply the want of a virtuous education. [ Thomas Wilson ]

Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him! [ Voltaire ]

He that wants money is accounted among those that want wit. [ Proverb ]

Good men want the laws for nothing but to defend themselves. [ Proverb ]

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Those that complain of every thing, never want the headache. [ Proverb ]

Ladies will rather pardon want of sense than want of manners. [ Proverb ]

All complain of want of memory, but none of want of judgment. [ Proverb ]

He's in great want of a bird that will give a groat for an owl. [ Proverb ]

Maids want nothing but husbands, and then they want everything. [ Proverb ]

He that works journey-work with the devil shall never want work. [ Proverb ]

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. [ Emerson ]

Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. [ S. Osgood ]

Tell me why the ant midst summer's plenty thinks of winter's want. [ Prior ]

More than we use is more than we want, and a burden to the bearer. [ Proverb ]

The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [ Syrus ]

They that are full of themselves are wise only for want of thinking. [ Proverb ]

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. [ Daniel Webster ]

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. [ George MacDonald ]

Lose not thy own for want of asking for it: 'twill get thee no thanks. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]

It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more trees. [ George Eliot ]

It is the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. [ Farquhar ]

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. [ Earl of Roscommon ]

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. [ Rousseau ]

If you want a good crop, sow with your hand, and pour not out of the sack. [ Proverb ]

In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. [ Montaigne ]

Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. [ Wm. Penn ]

The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. [ Olive R. Seward ]

It is want of diligence rather than want of means that causes most failures. [ Alfred Mercier ]

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. [ Madame Necker ]

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. [ Colton ]

A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. [ C. J. Weber ]

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. [ Longinus ]

Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]

The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not. [ Publius Syrus ]

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Hunger makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. [ Antiphanes ]

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. [ Whately ]

Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. [ Cato ]

want in Scrabble®

The word want is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters want:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word want

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want in Words With Friends™

The word want is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters want:

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Words within the letters of want

2 letter words in want (3 words)

3 letter words in want (5 words)

4 letter words in want (1 word)

want + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving want

Shorter words in want

an ant

an wan

Longer words containing want

wanted unwanted unwantedly

wanter wanters

wanting unwanting

wanton wantoned

wanton wantoner

wanton wantonest

wanton wantoning

wanton wantonise wantonised

wanton wantonise wantonises

wanton wantonising

wanton wantonize wantonized

wanton wantonize wantonizes

wanton wantonizing

wanton wantonlike

wanton wantonly

wanton wantonness

wanton wantons

wants