wanting

The word “wanting” has 2 syllables: want-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈwɒn.tɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for wanting?

In the thesaurus, “wanting” has 213 synonyms and 147 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for wanting along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for wanting

  • abominable
  • absent
  • abysmal
  • admiring
  • adoring
  • appreciating
  • asking
  • atrocious
  • away
  • awful
  • bad
  • bankrupt
  • bare
  • bastard
  • bearing
  • begging
  • below par
  • bereft
  • brutal
  • bum
  • burned out
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • calling for
  • challenging
  • cheesy
  • cherishing
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • coarse
  • commanding
  • common
  • cooked
  • counterfeit
  • coveting
  • crappy
  • craving
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut off
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • dead
  • deciding
  • defective
  • deficient
  • defunct
  • demanding
  • departed
  • deplorable
  • deprived
  • desiderating
  • desiring
  • destitute
  • determining
  • detestable
  • devoid
  • digging
  • disappointing
  • disastrous
  • dissatisfactory
  • done
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • empty
  • enjoining
  • enjoying
  • entailing
  • exacting
  • execrable
  • expired
  • extinct
  • failing
  • fake
  • fancying
  • faulty
  • favoring
  • feeling like
  • finished
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gone
  • gross
  • half-baked
  • hand-to-mouth
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ill
  • imperfect
  • in default
  • inadequate
  • incomplete
  • inferior
  • insisting
  • insufficient
  • involving
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lapsed
  • lean
  • less
  • lesser
  • light
  • liking
  • lost
  • lousy
  • loving
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • mere
  • minimum
  • minus
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • missing
  • necessitating
  • needed
  • needing
  • niggardly
  • nonexistent
  • not good enough
  • not up to par
  • obsolete
  • odious
  • off
  • omitted
  • out of gas
  • over
  • paltry
  • patchy
  • pathetic
  • perished
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pleasing
  • poor
  • preferring
  • pressing
  • prizing
  • punk
  • questing
  • rare
  • relishing
  • reprehensible
  • requiring
  • resolving
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • sans
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • scurrilous
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • shy
  • sketchy
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • slender
  • slight
  • slim
  • small
  • sour
  • spare
  • sparse
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • stipulating
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • taking
  • terrible
  • too little too late
  • trashy
  • treasuring
  • unacceptable
  • uncommon
  • under par
  • unfulfilled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • valuing
  • vanished
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • warranting
  • welcoming
  • willing
  • wishing
  • without
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

Antonyms for wanting

Meanings of wanting

  • verb
    1. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
    2. (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
    3. To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
    4. (usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
    5. (now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
    6. (now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
    7. To be lacking or deficient or absent.
    8. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
    9. To lack and be without, to not have (something).
    10. (by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.
  • adjective
    1. That wants or desires.
    2. Absent or lacking.
    3. Deficient.
  • preposition
    1. Without, except, but.
    2. Less, short of, minus.
  • noun
    1. The state of wanting something; desire.

Example Sentences

  • She was wanting a new adventure in her life.
  • The report was found wanting in several key areas.
  • He is always wanting to learn more about different cultures.
  • The team was wanting in experience but made up for it with enthusiasm.
  • The results were disappointing, leaving much to be wanting.

On this page you'll find 360 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to wanting, such as: A1, OK, abhorring, abominable, abominating, abounding, absent.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

questing

  • asking
  • badgering
  • bespeaking
  • claiming
  • commanding
  • demanding
  • desiring
  • dunning
  • enjoining
  • exacting
  • harassing
  • hounding
  • hunting
  • importuning
  • imposing
  • inviting
  • invoking
  • looking for
  • looking up
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • pursuing
  • requesting
  • requiring
  • requisitioning
  • seeking
  • soliciting
  • taking
  • urging
  • wanting
  • warranting

half-pint

  • Lilliputian
  • bantam
  • bite-size
  • bite-sized
  • bitty
  • boy
  • buddy
  • cadet
  • capsule
  • child
  • cipher
  • deficient
  • diminutive
  • dinky
  • dwarf
  • dwarfed
  • dwarfish
  • feeble
  • fellow
  • figurehead
  • fine
  • fragile
  • frail
  • gamin
  • guy
  • homunculus
  • inadequate
  • inappreciable
  • inconsequential
  • inferior
  • infinitesimal
  • infirm
  • insect
  • insignificancy
  • insufficient
  • junior
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • lacking
  • least
  • lightweight
  • little
  • little bitty
  • little guy
  • little one
  • little shaver
  • meager
  • meagre
  • measly
  • mediocrity
  • micro
  • microscopic
  • microscopical
  • mini
  • miniature
  • miniaturized
  • minikin
  • minim
  • minor
  • minuscule
  • minute
  • mite
  • morsel
  • niggardly
  • niggling
  • no-name
  • nobody
  • noncelebrity
  • nonentity
  • nonperson
  • nothing
  • nullity
  • number
  • obscurity
  • paltry
  • peanut
  • peewee
  • petty
  • picayune
  • piddling
  • pigmy
  • pinpoint
  • pint-size
  • pint-sized
  • pip-squeak
  • pocket
  • pocket-size
  • pocket-sized
  • poor
  • punk
  • puny
  • puppet
  • puppy
  • pygmy
  • runt
  • runted
  • runtish
  • runty
  • scant
  • scanty
  • scarce
  • schoolboy
  • scrub
  • scrubby
  • shaver
  • short
  • shot
  • shrimp
  • shrimpy
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • slender
  • slight
  • slim
  • small
  • small fry
  • small time
  • small-fry
  • smallish
  • snippersnapper
  • son
  • sonny
  • spare
  • sparse
  • sprout
  • squirt
  • stingy
  • stripling
  • stunted
  • subnormal
  • tadpole
  • teensy
  • teensy-weensy
  • teeny
  • teeny-weeny
  • tiny
  • toy
  • toylike
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • twerp
  • two-bit
  • unconsequential
  • underfed
  • undergrown
  • undersize
  • undersized
  • undeveloped
  • unsound
  • unsubstantial
  • wanting
  • weak
  • weakly
  • wee
  • weensy
  • weeny
  • whippersnapper
  • worthless
  • yea big
  • yea high
  • young one
  • youngster
  • youth
  • zero
  • zilch

paltry

  • Mickey Mouse
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • base
  • bastard
  • beggarly
  • below par
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheesy
  • chicken
  • coarse
  • common
  • condemnable
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • counterfeit
  • cowardly
  • crappy
  • craven
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • currish
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • dastardly
  • de minimis
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degenerate
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • derisory
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • disastrous
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • evil
  • execrable
  • fake
  • faulty
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • footling
  • foul
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gross
  • grubby
  • hairsplitting
  • hateful
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • ill
  • immoral
  • imperceptible
  • inadequate
  • inappreciable
  • inconsequential
  • inconsiderable
  • ineffectual
  • inferior
  • iniquitous
  • insignificant
  • insufficient
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lesser
  • limited
  • little
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • measly
  • mediocre
  • minor
  • minute
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • narrow
  • nasty
  • negligible
  • niggardly
  • niggling
  • nitpicking
  • no-account
  • nominal
  • odious
  • off
  • one-horse
  • pathetic
  • peanut
  • perverted
  • pettifogging
  • petty
  • phoney
  • phony
  • picayune
  • piddling
  • piddly
  • piffling
  • pimping
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poor
  • punk
  • puny
  • quibbling
  • ratty
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scabby
  • scanty
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • second-rate
  • set
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • slight
  • small
  • small-fry
  • sneaking
  • snide
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • sour
  • spare
  • squalid
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • terrible
  • tiny
  • trashy
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • two-bit
  • unacceptable
  • unconsequential
  • under par
  • unethical
  • unimportant
  • unprincipled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unscrupulous
  • unspeakable
  • unworthy
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • wanting
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

taking

  • Junoesque
  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acting
  • addressing
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adorable
  • aesthetic
  • aesthetical
  • affecting
  • agreeable
  • allowing
  • alluring
  • annihilating
  • appealing
  • appointing
  • arresting
  • asking
  • assassinating
  • assuming
  • attractive
  • bearing
  • beating
  • beauteous
  • beautiful
  • beckoning
  • begging
  • behaving
  • believing
  • besting
  • bettering
  • bewitching
  • bidding
  • biding
  • blotting out
  • blowing away
  • blowing out
  • bombing
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • breaking
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • bumping off
  • burying
  • butchering
  • buying
  • calling for
  • capitulating
  • capping
  • captivating
  • carrying
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • catching
  • challenging
  • charming
  • cherry-picking
  • chocolate-box
  • choosing
  • claiming
  • clasping
  • clenching
  • clobbering
  • clutching
  • comely
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • communicative
  • concluding
  • confirming
  • conquering
  • contagious
  • containing
  • contracting
  • controlling
  • copping
  • countenancing
  • creaming
  • crediting
  • croaking
  • crushing
  • culling
  • cunning
  • cute
  • cutting down
  • dainty
  • decimating
  • deducing
  • defeating
  • delicate
  • delightful
  • demanding
  • designating
  • desirable
  • destroying
  • directing
  • dishy
  • dispatching
  • doing away with
  • doing down
  • doing for
  • doing in
  • dollish
  • drop-dead
  • drubbing
  • eclipsing
  • electing
  • elegant
  • embracing
  • enchanting
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enduring
  • enfolding
  • engaging
  • engineering
  • enjoining
  • entailing
  • entering
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • enticing
  • espousing
  • esthetic
  • esthetical
  • euthanatizing
  • euthanizing
  • exacting
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • executing
  • expansive
  • exquisite
  • eye-catching
  • failing
  • fair
  • fascinating
  • felling
  • fellowshiping
  • fellowshipping
  • fetching
  • fielding
  • financing
  • finessing
  • finishing
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • flamboyant
  • flashy
  • flattening
  • flawless
  • flourishing
  • foxy
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • getting around
  • getting off
  • getting the better of
  • glamorous
  • glamourous
  • glorious
  • glossy
  • going
  • good
  • good-looking
  • goodly
  • gorgeous
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • handling
  • handpicking
  • handsome
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • having
  • having a grip on
  • holding
  • hot
  • housing
  • hunky
  • icing
  • inclosing
  • infectious
  • inferring
  • influencing
  • insisting
  • interesting
  • inviting
  • involving
  • jockeying
  • killing
  • killing off
  • knocking for a loop
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • knockout
  • lacking
  • languishing
  • laying hold of
  • licking
  • likely
  • living with
  • looker
  • lovely
  • lovesome
  • luring
  • luscious
  • magnetic
  • magnificent
  • making away with
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • marking
  • martyring
  • massacring
  • mastering
  • meeting
  • mesmeric
  • micromanaging
  • mowing
  • murdering
  • nabbing
  • naming
  • necessitating
  • needing
  • negotiating
  • neutralizing
  • nominating
  • nosing out
  • nubile
  • obtaining
  • offering
  • offing
  • okaying
  • operating
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pandemic
  • panning out
  • perfect
  • performing
  • permitting
  • personable
  • photogenic
  • picking
  • picking up
  • pipping
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pocketing
  • preferring
  • prepossessing
  • preselecting
  • presentable
  • pressing
  • presuming
  • pretty
  • prettyish
  • procuring
  • provocative
  • pulchritudinous
  • pulling
  • purchasing
  • putting away
  • putting down
  • questing
  • radiant
  • ratifying
  • ravishing
  • reacting
  • rebuying
  • receiving
  • redounding
  • regulating
  • repurchasing
  • requiring
  • respecting
  • resplendent
  • responding
  • resulting
  • routing
  • rubbing out
  • running
  • sanctioning
  • scoring
  • scragging
  • seating
  • securing
  • seductive
  • seemly
  • seizing
  • selecting
  • setting
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • sexy
  • shellacking
  • shouldering
  • showstopping
  • showy
  • sightly
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slick
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • snatching
  • snazzy
  • snowing under
  • snuffing
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • standing
  • standing for
  • statuesque
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stipulating
  • stomaching
  • stopping
  • striking
  • studly
  • stunning
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • sublime
  • succeeding
  • suffering
  • suiciding
  • superb
  • supporting
  • supposing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • swaying
  • sweating out
  • sweeping
  • sweet
  • swinging
  • tabbing
  • tagging
  • taking effect
  • taking hold
  • taking out
  • tantalizing
  • tapping
  • teasing
  • telegenic
  • tempting
  • terminating
  • thrashing
  • tolerating
  • toothsome
  • topping
  • toughing it out
  • transcending
  • transferable
  • transmittable
  • treating
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trusting
  • understanding
  • unseating
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wanting
  • warranting
  • wasting
  • waxing
  • weakening
  • wearing
  • welcoming
  • well-favored
  • whacking
  • whipping
  • wilting
  • winning
  • winsome
  • withering
  • working
  • worsening
  • worsting
  • zingy

unacceptable

  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • bastard
  • below par
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cheesy
  • coarse
  • common
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damnable
  • defective
  • deficient
  • deplorable
  • detestable
  • disagreeable
  • disastrous
  • displeasing
  • dissatisfactory
  • distasteful
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • fake
  • faulty
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gross
  • half-baked
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ill
  • ill-favored
  • improper
  • inadequate
  • inadmissible
  • inferior
  • insufficient
  • insupportable
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • niggardly
  • not up to snuff
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • off
  • offensive
  • paltry
  • pathetic
  • phoney
  • phony
  • poor
  • punk
  • reject
  • reprehensible
  • repugnant
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scanty
  • scurrilous
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • sour
  • spare
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • terrible
  • trashy
  • unappealing
  • under par
  • undesirable
  • uninviting
  • unpleasant
  • unsatisfactory
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • wanting
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

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