to want

Examples

• All

• We don't want any trouble here, do we?

  Straw Dogs (1971)

• The community wants more resources to improve local schools.

• - Maybe Mr. Green wants to give us some money?

  Moonshine County Express (1977)

• The Mayor wants to take me off the ticket.

  The Front Page (1974)

• In drawing up the criteria, we will want to focus on three particular sets of questions:

  Academic text (1999)

• Yet the military ultimately wants an Egyptian government that does not threaten its position.

  Academic text (2011)

• The mayor wants foot patrols in the city.

  Blood Hook (1987)

• Most of the world, as Mandela said, does not want the United States to be its policeman.

  Academic text (1999)

• In fact, the organizers do not want to have their sessions in areas lacking internal strife.

  Academic text (2008)

• A secessionist movement takes place when a component nation wants to achieve independence from an encompassing state.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

N

to need

vsto want

∞ 1.0

To require something because it is important

is a formal word meaning to be without something necessary

R

to require

vsto want

∞ 1.1

Need something because a rule or situation makes it necessary

means being without something necessary rather than rule based

L

to lack

vsto want

683 1.0

To not have something you need or want

is the formal word for the same absence

Antonyms

A

abundance

91 3.3

A large amount of something, more than you need

S

sufficiency

20 5.9

Enough of something for a particular purpose

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 Needed

to require

∞ 1.1

to need

∞ 1.0

to want

• Formal

∞ 5.8

Surface Forms

Etymology