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want

noun as in desire

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Example Sentences

She must toil on, sometimes far into the night, to satisfy the wants of her growing family.

I'm concerned that so many people experienced complications, for want of a more inclusive word.

In his research, he and his colleagues have found that when faced with decisions, CEOs rarely give weight to the wants and needs of stakeholders, largely because there is little value or profit incentive to do so.

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Every buyer has their own list of wants, needs, and must not have’s in their head.

You can paint a spoon any color you want and go crazy with experimental patterns.

So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.

Models in Israel will have to maintain a BMI of 18.5 or higher if they want to stay employed.

Why would “they” want to crush him just for attempting to buy something twenty years ago?

One wants speech to be free, but one doesn't actually want to hear it.

No one seems to know who that is—or why they would want to do such a thing.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.

It will be a busy session; and I want to see if I can't become a useful public man.

Do you want the marriage of your daughter with the rich and Honourable Harry broken?

I want to see the sort of thing happening to schools that has already happened to many sorts of retail shops.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say want?

The verb want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace. Wish implies the feeling of an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation.

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On this page you'll find 222 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to want, such as: need, wish, appetite, craving, demand, and fancy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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