Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. wished for; desired; sought
- adj. law subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of want.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. desired or wished for or sought
- adj. characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for
Etymologies
- want + -ed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“* Now* I wanted to scream, * wanted* to wake up Link and Natalie, but I couldn't get a breath.”
“Guess what the old bird wanted -- _wanted to know if I'd seen a torpedo he'd fired at me!”
“She wanted to see only places which she _wanted_ to see, not places which she ought to want to see; for there was sure to be a difference.”
“She wanted, oh, how she _wanted_ Dirk to be brave and good like Mark Calkins -- her one type of manhood.”
“So let's encapsulate such continuously updated sample into Sample class: class Sample def initialize (wanted) @wanted = wanted”
“He needed to write no state papers; he wanted no help, and he stood far above counsel or advice; but he could instruct an attentive scholar as no other teacher in the world could do; and Adams sought only instruction, wanted only to chart the inter-national channel for fifty years to come; to triangulate the future; to obtain his dimension, and fix the acceleration of movement in politics since the year 1200, as he was trying to fix it in philosophy and physics; in finance and force.”
“I wanted to give you things that 'ud make your life brighter -- _wanted_ to give them -- would have found intense pleasure in seeing you take them from me. ”
“So, the label wanted to sort of repackage it, as they would do back in the day--this was like '03--and we had this song, "Punk Rock 101," and they were like, "We want to put 'Punk Rock 101' on here, but we need a cover.”
“A fractious process reached rock bottom when Atlantic's chairman, Craig Kallman, told him his verses and performance on a new song the label wanted him to record, called Nothing On You, were "wack".”
“The label wanted hit songs, not a work of genius that critics loved.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wanted’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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w h o' s
hysteria, hilarity, hollow, ocean, wired, wilted, winter, whisper, wanted, weave, wrong, silhouette and 28 more...
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