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wanting(dictionary)

wanting (iou)



wanting adjective. ME.
[from WANT verb + -ING2.]
a. Absent, lacking, missing; not forthcoming, not supplied or provided. (Foll. by to.) ME.
R. G. Collingwood Critics have not been wanting who were stupid enough to accuse them.
b. Foll. by to: failing to help or satisfy (a person or need); falling below (an expected standard). Now rare. M17.
Lacking in something; deficient; needy. (Foll. by in, of.) L16.
A. Storr Measuring himself against his father, he had always found himself to be wanting.
Slow or backward to do something. L17-M18.
Requisite, necessary. M18-E19.
Of very low intelligence, weak-minded. colloq. M19.
A. T. Ellis The woman was probably the result of too much in-breeding, and wanting in the head.
wantingness noun (rare) M17.