“wanteth” is a form of
want
UK /wɒnt/ · US /wɑnt/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms wants wanting wanted wantest wantedst wanteth waunt
- verb (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand. “I want you as a friend, not a foe.”
- verb (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. “The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.”
- verb (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. “Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.”
- verb (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish. “You can leave if you want.”
- verb (colloquial, usually second person or interrogative, often future tense) To be advised to do or aim for something (compare should, ought). “You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.”
- verb (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). “That chair wants fixing and a clean.”
- verb (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- verb (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent. “There was something wanting in the play.”
- noun (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- noun (countable) Lack, absence, deficiency. [(often) with of] “She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.”
- noun (uncountable) Poverty.
- noun Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- noun (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- noun (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
- proper noun A personification of want.
Synonyms
need be in need of lack be without set one's heart on wish for would like ache appetize aspire covet crave desire dream eye fancy fond heart hope hunger privation deprivation neediness deficiency wish wishing require
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
From Middle English wont (“mole”), from Old English wand, wond, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
- noun Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
- verb To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
- verb To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
Etymology [Originally an adj., from Icel. vant, neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. sq. root139. See Wane, v. i.]
Etymology [Icel. vanta to be wanting. See Want to lack.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “want”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details