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Wanting vs Unsupplied - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between wanting and unsupplied

is that wanting is absent or lacking while unsupplied is not supplied.

As a preposition wanting

is without.

As a verb wanting

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun wanting

is the state of wanting something; desire.

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.

    • unsupplied

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not supplied.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The whole number of blacks receiving religious instruction from these Christian bodies, making allowance for the proportion of white and colored included in the three thousand Wesleyans, is about twenty-two thousand--leaving a population of eight thousand negroes in Antigua who are unsupplied with religious instruction. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1842, author=Joseph Sturge, title=A Visit To The United States In 1841, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=So long as this want is unsupplied , and the juvenile offender is contaminated by contact with the hardened criminal, the statesmen and those who control the legislatures of both countries, dishonor their profession of Christianity. }}