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Want

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.

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Narrower term 9

Absence 76% connected

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

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Dearth 76% connected

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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Deficit 76% connected

Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

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Famine 76% connected

General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

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Shortage 76% connected

Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

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Shortness 76% connected

The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in wi…

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Stringency 76% connected

The quality or state of being stringent.

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Tightness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being tight.

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Velleity 76% connected

The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.

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Manner of action 22

Ambition 76% connected

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

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Begrudge 76% connected

To grudge; to envy the possession of.

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Care 76% connected

A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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Crave 76% connected

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

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Cry 76% connected

To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

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Envy 76% connected

Malice; ill will; spite.

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Fancy 76% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Hanker 76% connected

To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker afte…

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Hope 76% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Hunger 76% connected

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

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Itch 76% connected

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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Like 76% connected

Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the part…

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Long 76% connected

Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.

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Lust 76% connected

Pleasure.

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Seek 76% connected

Sick.

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Spoil 76% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Starve 76% connected

To die; to perish.

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Thirst 76% connected

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…

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Wish 76% connected

To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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Yearn 76% connected

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Demand 76% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Essential 76% connected

Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.

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Exist 76% connected

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Impoverishment 76% connected

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

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Lack 76% connected

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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Miss 76% connected

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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Necessary 76% connected

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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Necessity 76% connected

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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Need 76% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Poorness 76% connected

The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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Poverty 76% connected

The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

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Requirement 76% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

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Requisite 76% connected

That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.

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Search 76% connected

To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

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Seek 76% connected

Sick.

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Demand 74% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Demand 74% connected

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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Needer 74% connected

One who needs anything.

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Needer 74% connected

One who needs anything.

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Neediness 74% connected

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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Neediness 74% connected

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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Needy 74% connected

Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.

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Needy 74% connected

Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.

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Require 74% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Require 74% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Wish 74% connected

To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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Wish 74% connected

To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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Deficiency 92% connected

The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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Deprivation 92% connected

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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Desire 92% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Lack 92% connected

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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Need 92% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Neediness 92% connected

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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Privation 92% connected

The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.

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Require 92% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Wish 92% connected

To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.

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Wishing 92% connected

of Wish

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