wanted Definition

want
verb wanted, wanting

1. To feel a need or desire for something.

Thesaurus: desire, crave, long for, lust for, have an urge for, aspire, covet, thirst after, hunger after, incline toward, fancy, hanker, have a yen for, have an itch for.
2. To need to be dealt with in a specified way.

Example: The bin wants emptying
3. colloq
Ought; need.
Example: You want to take more care
4. colloq
To need (a certain treatment, etc).
Example: He wants his head examined
5. To feel the lack of it.

Example: That kid wants for nothing
Thesaurus: lack, need, require, be deficient in, be deprived of.
Form: want for something (often)
6. To require the presence of someone or something.

Example: You are wanted next door
7. To desire someone sexually.

noun

1. A need or requirement.
2. A lack.

Example: a want of discretion
3. A state of need; destitution.

Derivative: wanter
noun

Idiom: for want of something

In the absence of it.

Idiom: in want of something

Needing it.

Idiom: want to do something (want someone to do something)

To wish or require that it be done.

Etymology: 12c: from Norse vanta to be lacking.

Phrasal Verb: want in or out

To desire to get in or out, etc.

Info:

There is often a spelling confusion between want and wont.

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wanted
adj

1. Needed or desired.

Thesaurus: needed, necessary, desired, sought after, in demand, requested, asked for; Antonym: satisfied, fulfilled.
2. Said of a person: being sought by the police on suspicion of having committed a crime, etc.