| 释义 |
want1 /wont/ noun- The state or fact of being without something or of having an insufficient quantity
- Absence or deficiency of necessities
- Poverty
- (in pl) difficult or straitened circumstances (obsolete)
- A lack, deficiency
- A blemish (obsolete)
- A defect, feebleness, in intelligence, as in have a want (Scot)
- (in pl) requirements or desires
transitive verb- To be destitute of or deficient in
- To lack, be without (Shakespeare, Macbeth III.6.8, who cannot want, for who can want, the thought?)
- To feel need of, desire
- To require, need
- To fall short of something by (a specified amount)
- To dispense with, do without (now dialect)
intransitive verb- To be deficient, entirely lacking (archaic)
- To be in need or destitution (old)
- To lack (with for; old)
ORIGIN: ON vant, neuter of vanr lacking, and vanta to lack wantˈage noun (US) Deficiency, shortage wantˈed adjective - Lacking
- Needed
- Desired
- Searched for, esp by the police
wantˈer noun Someone who wants wantˈing adjective - Absent, missing, lacking
- Deficient (with in, or, obsolete, with of)
- Failing to help, do justice to, come up to (with to; old)
- Slow to (with infinitive; obsolete)
- Below the desired or expected standard, in the phrase found wanting
- Mentally defective (dialect)
- Poor, needy (obsolete)
preposition Without, lacking, less want ad noun (chiefly US) A small advertisement, esp in a newspaper, specifying goods, property, employment, etc required by the advertiser wantˈ-wit noun A fool, someone lacking common sense (also adjective) want in, out, up, down, etc (informal) To want to get in, out, etc |