Another word for wanting

What is another word for wanting?

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• adj.

  • absent (adjective)

  • hollow,
  • truant,
  • out,
  • away,
  • no-show,
  • departed,
  • minus,
  • nonexistent,
  • vacant,
  • vacuous,
  • abstract,
  • elsewhere,
  • gone,
  • wanting,
  • blank,
  • void,
  • Omitted,
  • Non-existent,
  • empty,
  • unavailable.

  • below par (adjective)

  • off,
  • below average,
  • under the weather.

  • bereft (adjective)

  • Fleeced,
  • impoverished,
  • bereaved,
  • Robbed,
  • naked,
  • Without,
  • shorn,
  • dispossessed,
  • stripped,
  • Divested.

  • defective (adjective)

  • abnormal,
  • blemished,
  • out of order,
  • unhealthy,
  • injured,
  • seconds,
  • sick,
  • subnormal,
  • amiss,
  • damaged,
  • on the bum,
  • impaired.

  • deficient (adjective)

  • exiguous,
  • found wanting,
  • marred,
  • unequal,
  • cut off,
  • unassembled,
  • not up to scratch,
  • meager,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • not enough,
  • not cut out for,
  • not make it,
  • substandard,
  • outta gas,
  • needed,
  • bad,
  • second string,
  • second fiddle,
  • rarest,
  • third string,
  • infrequent,
  • remiss.

  • deprived (adjective)

  • dis advantaged,
  • under privileged,
  • under-privileged,
  • dis-advantaged.

  • empty (adjective)

  • deserted,
  • uninhabited,
  • abandoned,
  • deflated,
  • depleted,
  • evacuated,
  • despoiled,
  • exhausted,
  • Vacated,
  • waste,
  • unoccupied,
  • forsaken,
  • godforsaken,
  • unfilled,
  • dry,
  • dead.

  • failing (adjective)

  • fainter,
  • Unthriving,
  • unprosperous,
  • Unsufficient.

  • insufficient (adjective)

  • out of,
  • incapable,
  • unample,
  • unfitted,
  • too little too late.

  • meager (adjective)

  • more rattleboned,
  • scrimpiest,
  • more stinted,
  • most stinted,
  • skin bones,
  • more beanstalk,
  • most beanstalk,
  • un-fruitful,
  • in-considerable,
  • scrimpest,
  • most rattleboned,
  • lithe,
  • scrimpier,
  • in-fertile,
  • more broomstick,
  • scraggier,
  • skimpest,
  • most beanpole,
  • un productive,
  • in substantial,
  • more beanpole,
  • more starved,
  • un fruitful,
  • un-productive,
  • in fertile,
  • most broomstick,
  • in-substantial,
  • in considerable.

  • missing (adjective)

  • more disappeared,
  • mis-laid,
  • left out,
  • dis-appeared,
  • dis appeared,
  • most disappeared,
  • more away,
  • most away,
  • nowhere be found,
  • re moved,
  • mis laid,
  • mis placed,
  • mis-placed.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • deprived,
  • left behind,
  • scant,
  • skimpy,
  • few and far between,
  • off-form,
  • shy,
  • half done,
  • impencunious,
  • semioccasional,
  • in the making,
  • seldom met with,
  • parted from,
  • bare,
  • left without,
  • unconcluded,
  • Requesting,
  • below par,
  • unaccounted for,
  • in want,
  • not oneself,
  • dirt poor,
  • broomstick,
  • unfinished,
  • at a premium,
  • defective,
  • beanstalk,
  • unfurnished,
  • flawed,
  • scraggy,
  • weak,
  • uncompleted,
  • deficient,
  • miserably poor,
  • under construction,
  • poverty-stricken,
  • skimper,
  • moneyless,
  • scanty,
  • scraggiest,
  • barely sufficient,
  • in need,
  • nowhere to be found,
  • stone broke,
  • not present,
  • scrimpy,
  • bereft,
  • in the rough,
  • in great need; financially poor,
  • rattleboned,
  • missing,
  • scarce,
  • scrimper,
  • skin and bones,
  • down and out,
  • Unmoneyed,
  • half-done,
  • Beggared,
  • Unaccomplished,
  • failing.

  • poverty-stricken (adjective)

  • down out,
  • poverty stricken,
  • most impencunious,
  • most moneyless,
  • most unmoneyed,
  • povertystricken,
  • needful,
  • more impencunious,
  • dis tressed,
  • un-moneyed,
  • more moneyless,
  • un moneyed,
  • more unmoneyed,
  • in dire circumstances,
  • more suffering,
  • most suffering,
  • dis-tressed.

  • scant/scanty (adjective)

  • most minimal.

  • scarce (adjective)

  • most seldom,
  • semi-occasional,
  • semi occasional,
  • at premium,
  • most shortened,
  • more seldom,
  • most semioccasional,
  • most truncated,
  • un commoner,
  • un commonest,
  • in short supply,
  • more semioccasional,
  • more truncated,
  • un-common,
  • few far between,
  • un usual,
  • un-commoner,
  • un-usual,
  • more shortened,
  • un common.

  • short (adjective)

  • shortest,
  • low on,
  • niggardly.

  • short-handed (adjective)

  • shorthanded,
  • need of help,
  • needing help.

  • slender/slim (adjective)

  • re-mote.

  • unfinished (adjective)

  • in making,
  • un fulfilled,
  • most unexecuted,
  • more dabbling,
  • un-perfected,
  • un executed,
  • more uncompleted,
  • most unfashioned,
  • most half done,
  • un refined,
  • un-refined,
  • more half done,
  • Unfashioned,
  • un-concluded,
  • unadorned,
  • most roughhewn,
  • more halfdone,
  • un accomplished,
  • more unfashioned,
  • un-fashioned,
  • unfulfilled,
  • un-developed,
  • more unaccomplished,
  • un polished,
  • more half-done,
  • more roughhewn,
  • more unconcluded,
  • more unfulfilled,
  • Unexecuted,
  • most halfdone,
  • most dabbling,
  • un concluded,
  • un perfected,
  • un-finished,
  • un completed,
  • most unaccomplished,
  • in rough,
  • roughhewn,
  • un-completed,
  • most half-done,
  • un-adorned,
  • un-fulfilled,
  • un fashioned,
  • un finished,
  • un-accomplished,
  • un done,
  • halfdone,
  • un adorned,
  • more unexecuted,
  • most unfulfilled,
  • not done,
  • un-executed,
  • most unconcluded,
  • most uncompleted.

  • wanting (adjective)

  • half-baked,
  • not good enough,
  • bankrupt,
  • disappointing,
  • faulty,
  • less,
  • imperfect,
  • patchy,
  • burned out,
  • out of gas,
  • not up to par,
  • sketchy,
  • unsound,
  • in default,
  • inferior,
  • cooked.

  • weak (adjective)

  • forceless,
  • weakest.

  • wishing (adjective)

  • most pining,
  • de-siring,
  • most yearning,
  • more pining,
  • de siring,
  • more yearning.

• n.

  •
  • absence.
  •
  • excess.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • measly,
  • supply,
  • little,
  • shortfall,
  • fall,
  • gold dust,
  • devoid,
  • paltry,
  • few,
  • rare,
  • need,
  • scantily,
  • go round,
  • poor,
  • under-represented,
  • do without (sth),
  • deficiency,
  • insufficiency,
  • short,
  • scarcity,
  • absent,
  • thin,
  • nearly,
  • sparse,
  • needy,
  • paucity,
  • do 1,
  • rarity,
  • meagre,
  • inadequacy,
  • go,
  • long,
  • shortage,
  • time-poor,
  • time,
  • one,
  • inadequate,
  • under,
  • lousy,
  • lacking,
  • lack,
  • scrub,
  • starve,
  • mingy,
  • overstretched,
  • unsatisfied,
  • peanut,
  • destitute,
  • insufficient,
  • late,
  • nuanced,
  • poverty,
  • dearth.

• v.

  • desiring (verb)

  • welcoming,
  • longing,
  • craving,
  • hankering,
  • grasping,
  • Hungering,
  • pining,
  • Fancying,
  • Lusting,
  • Needing,
  • Thirsting,
  • itching,
  • Coveting.

  • hoping (verb)

  • wishing,
  • Relying,
  • aspiring,
  • believing,
  • trusting,
  • Awaiting,
  • yearning,
  • Desiring,
  • dreaming of,
  • Presuming,
  • Contemplating,
  • Expecting,
  • Hoping,
  • Intending,
  • Anticipating,
  • assuming.

  • lacking (verb)

  • Requiring,
  • Defaulting.

  • requesting (verb)

  • inviting,
  • inquiring,
  • bidding,
  • questioning,
  • demanding,
  • summoning,
  • pleading,
  • urging,
  • appealing,
  • Querying,
  • requisitioning,
  • Petitioning,
  • probing,
  • Soliciting,
  • seeking.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • short of.
  •
  • lame.
  •
  • incomplete.
  •
  • better.
  •
  • barren.
  •
  • big.
  •
  • innocent.

  • seeking

  • searching.

  • understaffed

  • short-handed.

How to use «Wanting» in context?

Paraphrases for Wanting:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    wish.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    always, appealing, ask, asking, aspiring, attacking, beat, beating, brooding, calling, catering, coming, demanding, directing, dying, failing, feeling, fighting, finding, flying, going, hitting, hope, hunting, insisting, inviting, lacking, laying, lending, looking, making, meaning, missing, moving, ordering, pending, playing, pleasing, precisely, pretending, project, pulling, request, searching, seeing, seeking, sending, shortcoming, speaking, stealing, striking, striving, struggling, sucking, surrounding, thieving, thinking, trying, urging, waiting, wandering, willing, wish, wishing, wondering, Aiming, Amounting, Applying, Attempting, Awaiting, Begging, Claiming, Defaulting, Expecting, Hoping, Instructing, Intending, Needing, Reiterating, Requesting, Requiring, Robbing, Waging, Contemplating, Soliciting, Stating, Stipulating, Suggesting, ensuring, researching, vacuuming, sponsoring, Favouring, endeavouring.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Does, likes, cares, chooses, wishes, pleases, dictates.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    desire, willingness.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    desire, Desiring.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    desires.

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Who is a wannabe person?

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