Another word for want

Be bent on, absence, austerity, craving, fancy, and desire are another word for want. Abundance and presence are the opposites of want. On this page, find 76 synonyms for want, parts of speech, and examples of want sentences.

Want synonyms

1. desire

  • Be bent on
  • Be desperate for
  • Care for
  • Covet
  • Crave
  • Cry out for
  • Desire
  • Fancy
  • Hanker after
  • Have a fancy for
  • Have a yen for
  • Have an inclination for
  • Hope for
  • Hunger for
  • Itch for
  • Like
  • Long for
  • Lust after
  • Need
  • Pine for
  • Set one's heart on
  • Sigh for
  • Take a fancy to
  • Thirst for
  • Wish for
  • Yearn for
  • Be dying for

2. a lack

  • Absence
  • Dearth
  • Deficiency
  • Deficit
  • Inadequacy
  • Insufficiency
  • Lack
  • Non-existence
  • Paucity
  • Scantiness
  • Scarceness
  • Scarcity
  • Shortage
  • Shortfall
  • Shortness
  • Unavailability
  • Undersupply
  • Exiguity

3. need

  • Austerity
  • Deprivation
  • Destitution
  • Drought
  • Famine
  • Impecuniosity
  • Impecuniousness
  • Impoverishment
  • Need
  • Neediness
  • Pauperism
  • Pennilessness
  • Penury
  • Poverty
  • Privation
  • Indigence

4. wish

  • Craving
  • Demand
  • Desire
  • Essential
  • Fancy
  • Hankering
  • Longing
  • Necessity
  • Need
  • Requirement
  • Requisite
  • Wish
  • Yearning
  • Yen

Want sentences

I want to learn more.

They want pizza for dinner.

She doesn’t want to leave.

We want to go hiking.

He doesn’t want any help.

Want parts of speech

Noun