Dictionary

wantful en · ADJ

Etymology

From want + -ful. Compare wishful, wistful, etc.

Meanings

1. Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.
   • Nor rank, nor wealth, I ask, but let me be Above contempt, and wantful poverty. 1807, Robert Southey, Specimens of the later English poets:
2. Full of want or desire; desirous.
   • Greaves's soul had up to that moment been "wantful, lustful,” and "working actively in lower regions,” but now it became “receptive of Spirit from the higher elements. 2010, Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia:

Forms

Antonyms

wantless

Deriveds

wantfulness