wantful
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From want + -ful. Compare wishful, wistful, etc.
Adjective
[edit]wantful (comparative more wantful, superlative most wantful)
- 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.
- 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.