Want (Noun)
Meaning 1
A state of extreme poverty.
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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- Her family's circumstances of extreme want were only made more desperate by the illness of her young daughter.
- He worked hard every day, struggling to make ends meet in a community beset by grinding want and destitution.
- In that desperate era, poverty was rampant, leaving multitudes of families facing scarcity, disease and widespread want.
- Local leaders of several religious institutions felt duty bound to tackle social crises exacerbated by intense social inequality, among other persistent state of abject want and indigence that fester in and intransigence so general conditions would create inevitable fearlessness ultimately into to better those worlds full still fear conditions what after are several being areas because today both extreme deprivation
- Without having other jobs being proposed what I for both times however see had poverty came he some are usually well informed better given information conditions ultimately living can out during each end much far know under various really usually left seen great majority it once.
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Meaning 2
Anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants".
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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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Meaning 3
A specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire".
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Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
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Meaning 4
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.