Crossword-Solution: WANT 4 letters, 196 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Want	v. i.	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.
Want	v. i.	Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
Want	v. i.	That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.
Want	v. i.	A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
Want	v. t.	To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
Want	v. t.	To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
Want	v. t.	To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
Want	v. i.	To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.
Want	v. i.	To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

We have 196 clues for the answer “WANT”

Clue	Answers
" . . . I shall not ___"	1 answer
"Don't You ___ Me" Human League	1 answer
"For __ of a nail . . ."	1 answer
"Gimme! Gimme!"	1 answer
"I __ out!"	1 answer
"I ___ my Maypo!"	1 answer
"I ___ to be alone"	1 answer
"I see it, I like it, I ___ it, I got it"	1 answer
"I'd really like this," in terse online slang	1 answer
"The covetous man is ever in ___."—Horace.	1 answer
"Waste not, ___ not"	1 answer
"What Women ___" (Mel Gibson movie)	1 answer
"You're the One That I ___" ("Grease" song)	1 answer
Ad intro	1 answer
Any entry on a Dear Santa list	1 answer
Are after	1 answer
Be bereft of	1 answer
Crave, e.g.	1 answer
Desire or require	1 answer
Desire to have	1 answer
Desire, but with little morality	1 answer
Disturbed song about desire?	1 answer
Entry on a wish list	1 answer
Fall short (of) by.	1 answer
Feel a need for	1 answer
Have an itch for	1 answer
Have too little of	1 answer
I just ___ my pants back"	1 answer
Kind of ads	1 answer
Lack for	1 answer
Letter-to-Santa verb	1 answer
Letter-to-Santa word	1 answer
Need alternative	1 answer
Needy condition	1 answer
Neil Diamond "Yesterday's gone, now all I ___ is a smile"	1 answer
State of poverty	1 answer
Suffer a lack of	1 answer
Verb in a letter to Santa	1 answer
Verb on a classic Uncle Sam poster	1 answer
Wish list item	1 answer
wish or demand the presence of	1 answer
"Freedom from ___."	2 answers
It limits freedom.	2 answers
Be deficient in	2 answers
"In ___ of ..."	2 answers
Feel inclined	2 answers
"What do you __?"	2 answers
Kind of ad	2 answers
Lack, deficiency	2 answers
Are inclined	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AERA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with WANT (5)

Then John was born, with the extra pomp that he conceived due to the birth of a male, and Michael came from his bath to ask to be born also, but John said brutally that they did not want any more.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where _Pilasters_ round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave; nor did there want Cornice or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures grav’n, The Roof was fretted Gold.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Adj.; want preparation, lack preparation; lie fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits[Fr]; live from hand to mouth.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the “white sails” of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness of the slave, not by his hunger and want, not by his lashes and toil, but by the cruel and blighting death which gathers over his soul.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with WANT (3)

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in…

Bob Marley

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeem…

C. S. Lewis The Four Loves

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

Nicholas Sparks The Notebook

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 200 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).