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Wanting vs Trying - What's the difference?

wanting | trying |

As adjectives the difference between wanting and trying

is that wanting is absent or lacking while trying is difficult to endure; arduous.

As verbs the difference between wanting and trying

is that wanting is while trying is .

As nouns the difference between wanting and trying

is that wanting is the state of wanting something; desire while trying is (philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt.

As a preposition wanting

is without.

wanting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Absent or lacking.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 171,
  • but where other powers of entertainment are wanting , the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

    Derived terms

    * wantingly

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • without
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of wanting something; desire.
  • trying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • *1891 , Conan Doyle,
  • *:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
  • Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
  • In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

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