Synonyms for wanted
want·ed

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1. wantedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwanted

2. wantedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwanted

3. wantedadjective

   Antonyms:
   unwanted

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. wantedadjective

   desired or wished for or sought

   "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"

   Synonyms:
   precious, treasured, cherished

   Antonyms:
   undesired, unwished-for, abdicable, cast-off(a), casteless, unclaimed, unsought, unwanted, friendless, throwaway(a), unwelcome, outcaste, uncalled-for, discarded, unwished, thrown-away(a), outcast, unloved

2. cherished, precious, treasured, wantedadjective

   characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

   "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"

   Synonyms:
   precious, cute, treasured, valued, cherished

   Antonyms:
   undesired, unwished, unwanted, unloved, throwaway(a), discarded, unwished-for, abdicable, unclaimed, uncalled-for, casteless, outcaste, friendless, outcast, unsought, cast-off(a), thrown-away(a), unwelcome

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "wanted":

   wished, desired, sought, most-wanted, dreamed, liked, wanna

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1. Lorenzo Maraviglia:

   Some guests wanted to visit the Aeolian isles with a private helicopter and rent a yacht to Syracuse which is only an hour’s drive away.

2. Gene Seroka:

   The system was gummed up because a lot of people on the larger side had gone from just' in - time' inventory management, to' just in case.' They wanted to get their orders into factories before their competitors did, they didn't want to be the' paper goods person of 2021'.

3. Stephen Qi Jun:

   Until now, personal users could only buy fuel at the gas station and if they thought that prices were at very low levels and wanted to secure or hedge their fuel at low levels, there was no way to do that, we are launching this new innovation to help millions of consumers hedge their own consumption of fuel.

4. James Murphy:

   This is a glorious day, for 70 years we wanted this.

5. Pieter Dorrestein:

   We wanted to increase the number of microbes and decrease the beauty products.