Synonyms for wanted
want·ed

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

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. Joe Brennan:

   Jimmy Hoffa wanted to see the body, we were told that Jimmy Hoffa was grabbed, killed there( Detroit) and brought back to New Jersey for Anthony Provenzano to personally verify that Jimmy Hoffa was dead.

2. Armando Iannucci:

   I wanted it to feel that the audience feel that the people they're watching up there are in their present day, this is their modern world.

3. Kim Calichio:

   When you are food-insecure, you're not food-insecure just for a week and then you get food and then everything is better again, and so we wanted to make sure that we were a source of reliability.

4. Nelson Figueroa:

   We want them to provide more security. That's what we've always wanted, we don't want to live like this.

5. Johnnie Jones:

   He knocked me down and started kicking me, things weren't right. ' Separate but equal' was unconstitutional and I wanted to fight it and make it better.