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wantingadjective falling short of a standardwe tried her cooking and found it to be very wanting bad, bastard, bush, bush-league, crummy(also crumby), deficient, dissatisfactory, ill, inferior, lame, lousy, off, paltry, poor, punk, sour, suboptimal, subpar, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wack(slang), wretched, wrong abysmal, atrocious, awful, bitchin'(slang), brutal, damnable, deplorable, detestable, disastrous, dreadful, execrable, gnarly(slang), horrendous, horrible, pathetic, stinky, sucky(slang), terrible, unspeakabledefective, faulty, flawedegregious, flagrant, grossbum, cheesy, coarse, common, crappy(slang), cut-rate, junky, lesser, low-grade, low-rent, mediocre, miserable, reprehensible, rotten, rubbishy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, trashyabominable, odious, vileuseless, valueless, worthlessinadequate, insufficient, lacking, meager(or meagre), mean, miserly, niggardly, scanty, shabby, short, skimp, skimpy, spare, stingymiscreant, scurrilous, villainouscounterfeit, fake, phony(also phoney), sham below par(or under par), from hunger acceptable, adequate, all right, decent, fine, OK(or okay), passable, respectable, satisfactory, standard, tolerable classic, classicalA1, bang-up, banner, boss(slang), capital, choice, crackerjack, dandy, divine, excellent, exceptional, fabulous, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, groovy, heavenly, high-test, jim-dandy, keen, marvelous(or marvellous), mean, neat, nifty, noble, par excellence, perfect, premium, prime, sensational, slick, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notch, unsurpassed, wonderfulbetter, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, special, sufficientaverage, borderline, fair, mediocre, middling, minimal, so-so, unexceptionalsuitable, useful, worthygratifying, satisfying not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular needat this time of year food for many wild animals is wanting deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, low, scarce, short, shy substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactoryhand-to-mouth, lean, light, meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingybare, mere, minimumslight, small adequate, enough, sufficient abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenitudinousenlarged, expanded, supplementedabounding, overflowing, teemingsatisfactory, tolerablelavish, luxuriant, richbig, considerable, hefty, jumbo, king-size(or king-sized), large, largish, oversize(or oversized), sizable(or sizeable), substantial, super not present or in evidencegrass is almost entirely wanting in that arid wasteland absent, lacking, missing, nonexistent dead, departed, extinct, lost, perished, vanisheddefunct, done, expired, finished, lapsed, obsolete, over, passéinadequate, insufficient, rare, scarce, sparse, uncommon existent, present active, alive, animate, living, thrivingcurrent, going, prevailing, uncanceledcommon, prevalentapparent, conspicuous, evident, obvious, plain not havinga mitten wanting its mate absent, minus, sans, without to have an earnest wish to own or enjoyI want a new car so badly! aching (for), coveting, craving, desiderating, desiring, dying (for), hankering (for or after), hungering (for), itching (for), jonesing (for)(slang), longing (for), lusting (for or after), panting (after), pining (for), repining (for), salivating (for), sighing (for), thirsting (for), wishing (for), yearning (for), yenning (for) spoiling (for)adoring, delighting (in), digging, enjoying, fancying, grooving (on), liking, loving, relishing, reveling (in)(or revelling (in))favoring, preferringadmiring, appreciating, cherishing, prizing, treasuring, valuing setting one's heart on abhorring, abominating, despising, detesting, execrating, hating, loathingdeclining, refusing, rejecting, spurning to have as a requirementthat stray cat wants food and a clean place to sleep bearing, challenging, claiming, demanding, necessitating, needing, requiring, taking, warranting entailing, involvingasking, begging, claiming, clamoring (for), crying (for)hurting (for), lackingcommanding, enjoining, exacting, insisting, pressing, questing, stipulating calling for having, holding owning, possessing to see fitdo what you want choosing, liking, pleasing, willing, wishing aching (for), coveting, craving, desiring, dying (for), fancying, hankering (for), hungering (for), itching (for), longing (for), lusting (for or after), panting (after), pining (for), repining (for), sighing (for), thirsting (for), yearning (for)deciding, determining, resolving to wish to haveI want some ice cream for dessert, please caring (for), liking adoring, delighting (in), digging, enjoying, fancying, grooving (on), loving, relishing, reveling (in)(or revelling (in)), welcomingcoveting, craving, desiring, dying (for), hankering (for or after), wishing (for), yearning (for) feeling like in the 15th century |