wantful

English

Etymology

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

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