want
Usage
What are other ways to say want?
The verb want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace. Wish implies the feeling of an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation.
Example Sentences
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Speaking about what they want their abode to look like, Scott noted that they “love sparkle, color, and glitter.”
From MarketWatch
Because he tells me to leave the house, which he lives in, I feel forced to comply, even though my mother wants me there.
From MarketWatch
“So, if there’s an office nearby, I’m going to be there whether I want to or not.”
“People have been burned so many times in this industry…they want to hear this is definitive.”
"I think because of where pantomime is now, in the sense of being respected and having this great quality, I think more people want to be in it," he says.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
