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I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
Ava DuVernay

Meaning of "wanting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WANTING

wanting  [ˈwɒntɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WANTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wanting can act as an adjective and a preposition.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The preposition is an invariable grammatical category, that has no meaning itself and which serves to link or relate terms.

WHAT DOES WANTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wanting

Want

The idea of want can be examined from many perspectives. In secular societies want might be considered similar to the emotion desire, which can be studied scientifically through the disciplines of psychology or sociology. Want might also be examined in economics as a necessary ingredient in sustaining and perpetuating capitalist societies that are organised around principles like consumerism. Alternatively want can be studied in a non-secular, spiritual, moralistic or religious way, particularly by Buddhism but also Christianity, Islam and Judaism. In economics, a want is something that is desired. It is said that every person has unlimited wants, but limited resources. Thus, people cannot have everything they want and must look for the most affordable alternatives. Wants are often distinguished from needs. A need is something that is necessary for survival, whereas a want is simply something that a person would like to have. Some economists have rejected this distinction and maintain that all of these are simply wants, with varying levels of importance. By this viewpoint, wants and needs can be understood as examples of the overall concept of demand.

Definition of wanting in the English dictionary

The first definition of wanting in the dictionary is lacking or absent; missing. Other definition of wanting is not meeting requirements or expectations. Wanting is also without.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WANTING


accounting
əˈkaʊntɪŋ
awanting
əˈwɒntɪŋ
banting
ˈbæntɪŋ
bunting
ˈbʌntɪŋ
consenting
kənˈsɛntɪŋ
counting
ˈkaʊntɪŋ
daunting
ˈdɔːntɪŋ
disappointing
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ
enchanting
ɪnˈtʃɑːntɪŋ
haunting
ˈhɔːntɪŋ
house-hunting
ˈhaʊshʌntɪŋ
hunting
ˈhʌntɪŋ
mounting
ˈmaʊntɪŋ
painting
ˈpeɪntɪŋ
parenting
ˈpɛərəntɪŋ
planting
ˈplɑːntɪŋ
pointing
ˈpɔɪntɪŋ
printing
ˈprɪntɪŋ
ranting
ˈræntɪŋ
venting
ˈvɛntɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WANTING

want
want ad
want in
want knap
want out
wantage
wantaway
wanted
wanted list
wanted notice
wanter
wanthill
wanthriven
wanton
wantoner
wantonize
wantonly
wantonness
wanty
wanwordy

WORDS THAT END LIKE WANTING

acting
anting
business accounting
chanting
cost accounting
dissenting
DNA fingerprinting
eventing
face painting
financial accounting
hinting
management accounting
merchanting
not counting
offset printing
oil painting
panting
rock painting
screen printing
taunting
unrelenting

Synonyms and antonyms of wanting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WANTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «wanting» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of wanting

Translation of «wanting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WANTING

Find out the translation of wanting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wanting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wanting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

querer
570 millions of speakers

English

wanting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इच्छुक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يريد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

желая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

querendo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুপস্থিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vouloir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mahu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wollen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

望む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepingin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

muốn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரும்பும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अभावी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eksik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

volendo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chcąc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бажаючи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

doresc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θέλοντας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wil
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vill
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ønsker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wanting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WANTING»

The term «wanting» is very widely used and occupies the 7.556 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WANTING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wanting

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10 QUOTES WITH «WANTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word wanting.
1
Juliette Binoche
For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much.
2
Peter Bogdanovich
One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
3
Eustace Budgell
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
4
Robert Burton
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
5
Rose Byrne
I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.
6
Ron Davies
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
7
Tate Donovan
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
8
Ava DuVernay
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
9
Janine di Giovanni
I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
10
Carmen Electra
Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WANTING»

Discover the use of wanting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wanting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Wanting
Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan's "Wanting" is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human.
Richard Flanagan, 2010
2
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Essays discuss reason, self-control, self-definition, time, cause and effect, accidents, and responsibility, and explain why people want free will
Daniel Clement Dennett, 1984
3
Wanting Enlightenment is a Big Mistake: Teachings of Zen ...
This book will be cherished by students of the Kwan Um School and by the many Zen students of other schools who enjoyed his popular earlier collection of teaching stories, DROPPING ASHES ON THE BUDDHA (Grove, 1976), and his book on Zen ...
Sungsan Tae Sŏnsa, Paul Muenzen, 2006
4
Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy: Why Women Settle for One-sided ...
Shows women how to break the cycle of sex-only relationships and find a partner who will commit to a loving union.
Jill P. Weber, 2013
5
Wanting What You Get
Librarian Ellie Stepp finds her romantic dreams coming true when sexy mayor Mason Sweet, the man with whom she has been in love since the seventh grade, asks her out on a date. Original.
Kathy Love, 2004
6
Wanting
Harry Antlers, a once-successful theatre director, falls obsessively in love with Viola Windrush when she comes to New York for an audition.
Angela Huth, 2011
7
Wanting Mor
Jameela, a young girl living in war-torn Afghanistan, struggles to find her place in the world after her mother dies and she moves to Kabul with her drunken father where she clashes with her stepmother and ends up in an orphanage.
Rukhsana Khan, 2009
8
Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq
A complete explanation of the U.S. decision to go to war in 2003
Jeffrey Record, 2010
9
Wanting Something More
Returning home, former-wallflower-turned-supermodel Marty Stepp vows to exact sweet revenge on Chief of Police Nathaniel Peck, who had humiliated her in high school, by exposing his true nature as an unscrupulous womanizer. Original.
Kathy Love, 2005
10
The Wanting Seed
Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality.
Anthony Burgess, 1963

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WANTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wanting is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lockheed F-35's Reliability Found Wanting in Shipboard Testing
Lockheed F-35's Reliability Found Wanting in Shipboard Testing. by Anthony Capaccio. July 28, 2015 — 9:55 AM PDT. Share on FacebookShare on Twitter. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
2
Review: 'King Liz,' at the Top of Her Game and Wanting More
As portrayed with fierce and compelling focus by Karen Pittman, Liz Rico, the heroine of “King Liz,” a new play by Fernanda Coppel, is as powerfully smart as ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Ignore hedgies wanting helipads, Boris Johnson advises successor
Boris Johnson has one key piece of advice for his successor as London mayor: ignore claims from hedge fund managers that what the city needs most is more ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
4
'Almost to Point of Wanting Them All Segregated': Teacher Says …
“I'm almost to the point of wanting them all segregated on one side of town so they can hurt each other and leave the innocent people alone,” Fitzgibbons added. «TheBlaze.com, Jun 15»
5
Carolyn Hax: When his weight leaves her wanting to wait
He has alluded several times to wanting to take our relationship to the next level. Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor ... «Washington Post, May 15»
6
Suicide Isn't About Wanting to Die
Wanting to die by suicide is almost never normal. Most people never contemplate suicide. I was surprised to learn this, at 23 years old, because up until then, ... «PsychCentral.com, May 15»
7
Canadian Police Arrest 10 Youths Over Suspicion Of Wanting To …
Ten youths were arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport over suspicion of wanting to travel to Iraq ... «International Business Times, May 15»
8
Opinionator | No Longer Wanting to Die
The first time I was hospitalized for wanting to kill myself, as a teenager, my dad visited me a few days in. I made an effort to greet him with a firm handshake; ... «New York Times, May 15»
9
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson opens up about girlfriend …
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said his girlfriend, pop star Wanting Qu, hasn't been able to reach her mother for almost eight months after Chinese ... «MetroNews Canada, May 15»
10
Why Fructose-Laden Drinks May Leave You Wanting More
The type of sugar in your drink may affect how much food you want to eat, according to a new study. Researchers found that people wanted to eat more ... «Live Science, May 15»

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