<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new</li><li>Synonyms: crave, require</li><li>to wish, need, crave, demand, or desire (often followed by an infinitive): I want to see you. She wants to be notified.</li><li>to be without or be deficient in: to want judgment; to want knowledge</li><li>Synonyms: need</li><li>to fall short by (a specified amount): The sum collected wants but a few dollars of the desired amount.</li><li>to require or need: The house wants painting.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something wanted or needed; necessity: My wants are few.</li><li>Synonyms: desideratum</li><li>something desired, demanded, or required: a person of childish, capricious wants</li><li>absence or deficiency of something desirable or requisite; lack: plants dying for want of rain</li><li>Synonyms: paucity, insufficiency, inadequacy, scarcity, dearth</li><li>the state of being without something desired or needed; need: to be in want of an assistant</li><li>the state of being without the necessaries of life; destitution; poverty: a country where want is virtually unknown</li><li>Synonyms: indigence, penury, privation</li><li>a sense of lack or need of something: to feel a vague want</li></ul>