want (204 synonym found)

Want has 204 synonyms. The top synonyms for want are be, lag, fail, lack, like, lust, must, need and 196 more. Browse the full list below.

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be
lag
fail
lack
like
lust
must
need
will
wish
ardor
befit
covet
crave
exact
fancy
gripe
horme
ought
serve
slump
would
aim at
choose
dearth
demand
desire
famine
hiatus
lacuna
libido
outage
penury
prefer
should
starve
ullage
absence
ache to
be poor
beggary
behoove
burn to
cry for
default
deficit
drought
fail of
itch to
like to
long to
love to
need to
passion
poverty
require
take to
want to
wantage
wanting
wish to
awayness
call for
exigency
fall shy
impurity
need for
occasion
omission
pleasure
poorness
shortage
subserve
arrearage
choose to
curiosity
eagerness
essential
fall away
indigence
must item
necessary
necessity
neediness
neverness
pauperism
privation
requisite
run short
shortfall
be in want
be pinched
clamor for
come short
deficiency
demand for
desiderate
essentials
fall short
faultiness
immaturity
inaccuracy
inadequacy
lust after
meagerness
mediocrity
mendicancy
not answer
patchiness
prerequire
rank under
scantiness
skimpiness
starvation
stop short
take doing
unevenness
want doing
be dying to
be inferior
cry out for
deprivation
desideratum
destitution
empty purse
fallibility
inexactness
lose ground
necessaries
necessities
nonpresence
not compare
not hack it
not make it
not qualify
not stretch
not suffice
nowhereness
requirement
requisition
shortcoming
sketchiness
subtraction
the needful
unsoundness
adulteration
be indicated
beggarliness
desideration
exiguousness
homelessness
imperfection
inexactitude
missing link
not approach
not make out
run short of
bare cupboard
concupiscence
defectibility
defectiveness
discontinuity
erroneousness
go on welfare
indispensable
insufficiency
kick the beam
moneylessness
nonoccurrence
not come near
pauperization
sexual desire
the necessary
undevelopment
would fain do
be desirous of
be hurting for
dearly love to
impoverishment
inadequateness
incompleteness
not measure up
prerequirement
wish very much
be insufficient
have designs on
have nothing on
impecuniousness
necessitousness
unperfectedness
bare necessities
bare subsistence
be found wanting
grinding poverty
wish fulfillment
wish to goodness
have occasion for
lust for learning
will and pleasure
play second fiddle
pleasure principle
thirst for knowledge
intellectual curiosity
hand-to-mouth existence

Frequently asked questions

What is a synonym for want?

A common synonym for want is be. Other synonyms include lag, fail, lack, like.

How many synonyms does want have?

Want has 204 synonyms listed on Thesaurasize.

What does want mean?

(v): to wish for or desire (something); to lack (something) Example: "what do you want to eat?" (n): Lack (of), absence of; poverty Example: "and well are worth the want that you have wanted.--Shakesp

Definition of want:

(v) : to wish for or desire (something); to lack (something)
"what do you want to eat?"
(n) : Lack (of), absence of; poverty
"and well are worth the want that you have wanted.--Shakespeare, King Lear"
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Definition of want:

(v) : to wish for or desire (something); to lack (something)
"what do you want to eat?"
(n) : Lack (of), absence of; poverty
"and well are worth the want that you have wanted.--Shakespeare, King Lear"
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