to want

Examples

• All

• What is it that I want to feel?

  Harvard University

• So that's kind of what I want to do.

• Act like the person you want to be now.

• So, you know, if you want data, see me.

• - Anything else you want to say before I leave?

  He's Watching (2022)

• After graduating from high school, she wants to attend college and become a police detective.

  Academic text (2013)

• When you feel like you want to change, that's great.

• So that's what I want for you guys as well.

• Students were noted as saying, "We don't want to be treated just the same."

  Academic text (2013)

• He really wants to travel the world after finishing his studies.

Synonyms

L

to like

vsto want

∞ 1.0

To want something, often as a polite request

is a broader wish or hope without preference nuance

H

to hope

vsto want

∞ 1.0

To want something to happen and think it may be possible

is a general wish without implying belief in possibility

S

to seek

vsto want

∞ 1.0

Try to find or get something you want

is a mental wish rather than an active attempt to obtain it

D

to desire

vsto want

446 1.6

To want something very much

is a general wish with milder intensity

K

to kill for

vsto want

• Informal

41 7.3

To want something very much

is a normal wish without strong slang emphasis

C

to covet

vsto want

39 6.7

To want something very much, especially something someone else has

is similar but does not focus on others' possession

Idioms

W

to want for nothing

5 4.2

To have everything you need and wish for

W

waste not, want not

1 6.5

Use things carefully so you do not run out later

Phrasal Verbs

W

to want to puke

• Informal

9 8.4

To feel like you are going to throw up

Compounds

W

want ad

• US

9 2.9

An ad in a newspaper asking for things like jobs or items

How Desirous

to yearn

92 4.9

to crave

103 3.8

desire

∞ 1.6

to want

∞ 1.0

to wish

577 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology