| 单词 | wanting |
| 释义 | wanting (once / 239 pages) adj If something's wanting, there's not enough of something necessary in it. If your essay is wanting, it's missing something important and won't get an A. Try adding body paragraphs. If you forget the sugar in your chocolate chip cookies, you'll find them wanting when you taste them. Likewise, if your favorite team's defense is wanting, they're likely to lose the basketball game. Wanting, which was originally wantand, comes from the verb want, "to be lacking." This definition pre-dated the now more common "to wish for" by 500 years. WORD FAMILYwant: wanted, wanter, wanting, wants+/unwanted: unwantedly/wanted: unwanted/wanter: wanters USAGE EXAMPLESIt was more than the angry white guy wanting his. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) While wanting to help her son, Becky also wonders whether she lacks the imagination necessary to understand him. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) “That’s the game we’ve been wanting to play,” he said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj inadequate in amount or degree tested and found wanting Syn deficient, lacking inadequate, unequal lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task 2adj nonexistent Syn absent, lacking, missing nonexistent not having existence or being or actuality |
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