wanting
Feeling a need
Wanting is a participle that can be used as a preposition with the same meaning as without to convey that something is deficient: three kittens wanting a home.
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
hunger · thirst · desire · need · wish · aspiration · hope · eagerness · appetite · urge
- gerundswalking, running, talking, eating, sleeping
- appetitehungry, hunger, starving, famished, ravenous
- desireswish, desire, yearning, craving, urge
- longingyearning, pining, craving, hankering, wishing
- selfishnessselfishness, greed, egoism, narcissism, self-centeredness
- cravingscraving, cravings, food craving, salt craving, hunger
adequacy/sufficiency
wantingsufficient
Meeting minimum requirements
adequate · satisfactory · enough · acceptable · up to par
- found wanting
- wanting it all
- find wantingJudge as inadequate
- wanting to knowDesiring information or understanding