Definition of wants

"wants" 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"

"wants" 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 wants

Money wants no followers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A mole wants no lanthorn. [ Proverb ]

A wilful man never wants wo. [ Proverb ]

Wealth wants not for worship. [ Proverb ]

A clean hand wants no washing. [ Proverb ]

Limit your wants by your wealth. [ Proverb ]

The choleric man never wants woe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A good horseman wants a good spur. [ Proverb ]

Honesty, now-a-days, wants a guard. [ Proverb ]

He is rich enough who has no wants. [ Italian Proverb ]

Wants keep pace with wealth always. [ J. G. Holland ]

He is richest that has fewest wants. [ Proverb ]

An ill paymaster never wants excuse. [ Proverb ]

A good paymaster never wants workmen. [ Proverb ]

A man of courage never wants weapons. [ Proverb ]

He is rich enough that wants nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that studies his content, wants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An old man never wants a tale to tell. [ Proverb ]

Our necessities never equal our wants. [ Franklin ]

He that despises shame wants a bridle. [ Proverb ]

The wit one wants spoils what one has. [ French Proverb ]

He wants wit that wants resolved will. [ Two Gent. of Ver ]

Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A fool wants his cloak in a rainy day. [ Proverb ]

He would fain fly, but he wants wings. [ Italian Proverb ]

A beast that wants discourse of reason. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

When resolution hath prepared the will;
It wants no helps to further any ill. [ Mirror for Magistrates ]

Nature is frugal, and her wants are few. [ Young ]

A small sore wants not a great plaister. [ Proverb ]

He would gladly fly, but wants feathers. [ Proverb ]

An idler is a watch that wants both hands. [ Cowper ]

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. [ Pope ]

Without an helm or pilot her to sway;
Full sad and dreadful is that ship's event,
So is the man that wants intendiment. [ Spenser ]

In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]

He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. [ Proverb ]

He wants nothing now but the itch to scratch. [ Proverb ]

All is but lip wisdom which wants experience. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

All is but lip-wisdom, that wants experience. [ Proverb ]

The beast that goes always never wants blows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants. [ Danish Proverb ]

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

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]

A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat. [ Proverb ]

Whatever wants, pleasure and vanity must be had. [ Proverb ]

He has good blood in him, but wants grotes to it. [ Proverb ]

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant. [ Macaulay ]

The wolf never wants for a pretense against a lamb. [ Proverb ]

He that hath a wife and children wants no business. [ Proverb ]

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Where women are, and geese, there wants no gagling. [ Proverb ]

One must tell women only what one wants to be known. [ Caron ]

A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. [ Emerson ]

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. [ Socrates ]

There never wants a ragged one, for one that is ripped. [ Proverb ]

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants. [ Boston ]

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. [ Cowley ]

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! [ Lavater ]

A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things. [ Proverb ]

She that marries ill never wants something to say for it. [ Proverb ]

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. [ Lavater ]

He that wants business may fit out a ship, or take a wife. [ Proverb ]

He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light. [ Yogi Berra ]

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

To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. [ Pope ]

Craft borders upon knavery; wisdom never uses, nor wants it. [ Proverb ]

The least wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it. [ Proverb ]

He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [ Horace ]

Discontents generally arise from our desires more than our wants. [ Proverb ]

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth. [ Publius Syrus ]

A man with a running head never wants wherewith to trouble himself. [ Proverb ]

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. [ Burke ]

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It ]

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them. [ Sophie Arnould ]

Can any thing be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

One must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants. [ Lowell ]

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. [ Socrates ]

High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more,
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. [ Young ]

Old men are always jealous: they are like the greedy child who wants the cake it can not eat. [ A. Ricard ]

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want. [ Lavater ]

He that has too little wants wings to fly, he that has too much is encumbered with his large tail. [ Proverb ]

It is important not to keep a business engagement if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. [ W. Cobbett ]

He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life. He who wants content cannot find an easy chair. [ Proverb ]

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not. [ Colton ]

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. [ Swift ]

Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. [ Manilius ]

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much but wants more. [ Colton ]

Of many imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. [ Ben. Franklin ]

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life. [ Beecher ]

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

My notions about life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest. [ Southey ]

When danger threats, the friend comes forth resolved and shields his friend; in fortune's golden smile what need of friends? Her favoring power wants no auxiliary. [ Euripides ]

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

When the heart of man is serene and tranquil, he wants to enjoy nothing but himself: every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. [ Richter ]

Extremes touch: he who wants no favors from Fortune may be said to have obtained the very greatest that she can bestow, in realizing an independence which no changes can diminish. [ Chatfield ]

The joys of heaven are without example, above experience, and beyond imagination - for which the whole creation wants a comparison; we, an apprehension; and even the Word of God, a revelation. [ Bishop Norris ]

The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]

The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern, and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account. [ Goethe ]

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. [ Carlyle ]

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

O blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee. [ Sterne ]

Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

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WANTS
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WANTS
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WANTS
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WAN
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TAW
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AWN
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Words within the letters of wants

2 letter words in wants (4 words)

3 letter words in wants (8 words)

4 letter words in wants (7 words)

5 letter words in wants (1 word)

wants + 1 blank (2 words)

wants + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence wants

Words that start with wants (1 word)

Words with wants in them (1 word)

Words that end with wants (1 word)

Word Growth involving wants

Shorter words in wants

an ant ants

an ant want

an wan want

Longer words containing wants

(No longer words found)