Word Meanings - WANTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WANTING)

• Defective
• Faulty
• imperfect
• insufficient
• deficient
• wanting
• short
• Devoid
• Void
• destitute
• unendowed
• unprovided
• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• flow
• slothful
• idle
• lax
• dilatory
• tardy
• remissful
• Scarce
• Rare
• infrequent
• unabundant
• unique
• uncommon
• unusual
• singular
• precious
• choice
• few
• sparse
• Wanting
• empty
• vacant
• useless
• nugatory
• bereft
• unoccupied
• unfilled
• unsubstantial
• lacking
• invalid
• null

Related words: (words related to WANTING)

• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• CHOICE
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• SCARCEMENT
  An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• NUGATORY
  1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• BEREFT
  of Bereave.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their