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Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion.

Missing; wanting. [Prov. Scot. & Eng.] Sir W. Hamilton.

Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. De Quincey.

Wanting a skull.

aulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

Wanting the spinal cord.

Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita.

Wanting drink; thirsty.

y good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.

Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess). "Bankrupt in gratitude." Sheridan. Bankrupt law, a law by which the property of a person who is unable or unwilling to pay his debts may be taken and distributed to his creditors, and by which a person who has made a full surre…

pty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.