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wanted
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desired |
| Synonyms: | asked for, necessary, needed, requested |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, aspire, be greedy, choose, could do with, covet, crave, desiderate, fancy, feel a need, hanker, have a passion for, have a yen for, have ambition, have an urge for, have eyes for, hunger, incline toward, itch for, long, lust, need, pine, prefer, require, spoil for, thirst, wish, yearn |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
| Antonyms: | despise, dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lack, need |
| Synonyms: | be deficient, be deprived of, be found wanting, be insufficient, be poor, be short of, be without, call for, demand, fall short in, have need of, miss, require, stand in need of, starve |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
| Antonyms: | have |
| Main Entry: | essential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important, vital |
| Synonyms: | capital, cardinal, chief, constitutive, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, right-hand, wanted |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
| Antonyms: | accessory, auxiliary, inessential, minor, nonessential, secondary, subsidiary, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fleeing, transient |
| Synonyms: | avoiding, brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant, erratic, escaping, evading, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, flying*, fugacious, hot*, impermanent, lamster, momentary, moving, on the lam, passing, planetary, running away, short*, short-lived, temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering, wanted |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, permanent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | marketable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily sold; in demand |
| Synonyms: | bankable, commercial, fit, for sale, good, hot*, merchandisable, merchantable, profitable, salable, sellable, selling, sought after, sound, trafficable, vendible, wanted |
| Antonyms: | unmarketable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | necessary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
| Synonyms: | all-important, basic, binding, bottom-line, cardinal, chief, compelling, compulsory, crucial, de rigueur, decisive, elementary, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, incumbent on, indispensable, mandatory, momentous, name of game, needed, needful, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, quintessential, required, requisite, significant, specified, unavoidable, urgent, vital, wanted |
| Antonyms: | inessential, unimportant, unnecessary, useless |
| Main Entry: | notorious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | known for a trait, often an |
| Synonyms: | blatant, dishonorable, disreputable, flagrant, glaring, ill-famed, infamous, leading, noted, obvious, opprobrious, overt, patent, popular, prominent, questionable, scandalous, shady, shameful, unadmirable one belled, undisputed, wanted, well-known, wicked |
| Main Entry: | urgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing immediate attention |
| Synonyms: | burning*, called-for, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying*, demanded, demanding, driving, essential, exigent, foremost, heavy*, hurry-up, immediate, impelling, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, insistent, instant, leading, life and death, momentous, necessary, paramount, persuasive, pressing, primary, principal, required, salient, serious, top-priority, touch and go, touchy*, vital, wanted, weighty |
| Antonyms: | moderate, unimportant, unnecessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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