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

• A1
• OK
• abhorring
• abominating
• abounding
• abundant
• acceptable
• active
• adequate
• alive
• all right
• ample
• animate
• apparent
• average
• bang-up
• banner
• better
• big
• borderline
• boss
• bounteous
• bountiful
• capital
• choice
• classic
• classical
• common
• considerable
• conspicuous
• copious
• crackerjack
• current
• dandy
• decent
• declining
• despising
• detesting
• divine
• enlarged
• enough
• evident
• excellent
• exceptional
• execrating
• existent
• existing
• expanded
• fabulous
• fair
• fancy
• fine
• first-class
• first-rate
• generous
• going
• grand
• gratifying
• great
• groovy
• hating
• having
• heavenly
• hefty
• high-grade
• high-test
• holding
• jim-dandy
• jumbo
• keen
• king-size
• king-sized
• large
• largish
• lavish
• liberal
• living
• loathing
• luxuriant
• marvellous
• marvelous
• mean
• mediocre
• middling
• minimal
• neat
• nifty
• noble
• obvious
• okay
• overflowing
• oversize
• oversized
• owning
• par excellence
• passable
• perfect
• plain
• plenitudinous
• plenteous
• plentiful
• possessing
• premium
• present
• prevailing
• prevalent
• prime
• refusing
• rejecting
• respectable
• rich
• satisfactory
• satisfying
• sensational
• sizable
• sizeable
• slick
• so-so
• special
• splendid
• spurning
• standard
• stellar
• sterling
• substantial
• sufficient
• suitable
• super
• superb
• superior
• superlative
• supernal
• supplemented
• swell
• teeming
• terrific
• thriving
• tip-top
• tolerable
• top
• top-notch
• uncanceled
• unexceptional
• unsurpassed
• useful
• wonderful
• worthy

• 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.

• 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.

dabbling

lacking

unable

vacated

vain

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