Wanting vs Zealous - What's the difference?
wanting | zealous | Related terms |
Absent or lacking.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 171,
Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.
* 1791 , , volume 1, page 238:
* 1896 , , A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (2004 edition), page 122:
* 1940 , Foster Rhea Dulles, America Learns to Play: A history of popular recreation, 1607-1940 , page 61:
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As adjectives the difference between wanting and zealous
is that wanting is absent or lacking while zealous is full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion.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
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Adjective
(en adjective)- but where other powers of entertainment are wanting , the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
Derived terms
* wantinglyVerb
(head)zealous
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Alternative forms
* zelousAdjective
(en adjective)- Johnson was truly zealous for the success of "The Adventurer;" and very soon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter:
- Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.
- and there were few more zealous dancers at the fashionable balls in the Raleigh Tavern at Williamsburg.
Newt Gingrich," Time (retrieved 9 Sept 2013):
- Newt Gingrich . . . left Congress in 1998, following GOP midterm-election losses that many blamed on his zealous pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment.