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Want of parallelism between one series of strata and another, especially when due to a disturbance of the position of the earlier strata before the latter were deposited.

Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency. South.

Want of culture. "Idleness, ill husbandry . . . unculture." Bp. Hall.

A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.

Absence or want of devotion.

Want of discernment. [R.] Spectator.

Want of ease; uneasiness. [Obs.]

Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing. "His uneasy station." Milton. A sour, untractable nature makes him uneasy to those who approach him. Addison.

Want of equity or uprightness; injustice; wickedness; iniquity. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Absence of expectation; want of foresight. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. [R.] Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.

Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Dryden.

Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

Wanting friends; not befriended; not countenanced or supported. Goldsmith. If Richard indeed does come back, it must be alone, unfollowed, unfriended. Sir W. Scott.

Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. "Unhandsome pleasures." J. Fletcher.

Mischievous; wanton; wicked. [Obs.] Shak. -- Un*hap"pi*ly, adv. -- Un*hap"pi*ness, n.

Want of importance; triviality. Johnson.

Want or failure of intermission. [R.] Bp. Parker.

Want of justice; injustice. [Obs.] Hales.

Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful. He is unkind that recompenseth not; but he is most unkind that forgetteth. Sir T. Elyot. -- Un*kind"ly, adv. -- Un*kind"ness, n.