English Dictionary

want

/wɒnt/

verb

(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.

I want a new car.

意味（1）

(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.

意味（2）

(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.

意味（3）

(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.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

You can leave if you want.

意味（5）

(colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).

You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.

意味（6）

(transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).

The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which she wants but a few months.

意味（7）

(transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

意味（8）

(intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.

There was something wanting in the play.

意味（9）

(intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.

意味（10）

(transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).

he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth[…]wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.

意味（11）

(transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.

[…] which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing to want his presence.