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WANTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inadequate in amount or degree
Example:
tested and found wanting
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
inadequate; unequal (lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Nonexistent
Example:
her appetite was lacking
Synonyms:
absent; lacking; missing; wanting
Classified under:
Similar:
nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb want
Context examples:
“I have been wanting to speak to you, Jekyll,” began the latter.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Hence, in most English castles, and in Castle Twynham among the rest, chambers were to be found which would seem to be not wanting either in beauty or in comfort.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two fingers, who had come first to the Admiral Benbow.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I occasionally made a pretence of wanting a page or two of manuscript copied.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Demi, like a true Yankee, was of an inquiring turn, wanting to know everything, and often getting much disturbed because he could not get satisfactory answers to his perpetual "What for?"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In answer to your letter, I can assure you that you must not conceive me to be wanting in those finer feelings which are the chief adornment of humanity.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I've thought about it off and on, while not wanting to think of it. But we've come to it now. It's the only thing to do."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Psha! My dear creature, she replied, do not think me such a simpleton as to be always wanting to confine him to my elbow.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Most people have had the experience of wanting to minimize the hurt of the person they are rejecting.
(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I do not profess to be a judge of such things, but they appeared to me to be singularly wanting in merit.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
