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单词 wantful
释义

wantful

English

Etymology

From want + -ful.

Adjective

wantful (comparative more wantful, superlative most wantful)

  1. Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.
    • 1807, Robert Southey, Specimens of the later English poets:
      Nor rank, nor wealth, I ask, but let me be Above contempt, and wantful poverty.
  2. Full of want or desire; desirous.
    • 2010, Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia:
      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.

Antonyms

  • wantless
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