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Wanted vs Wonted - What's the difference?

wanted | wonted |

As adjectives the difference between wanted and wonted

is that wanted is wished for; desired; sought while wonted is usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.

As a verb wanted

is past tense of want.

wanted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wished for; desired; sought
  • (legal) subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.

    • Antonyms

    * unwanted

    Derived terms

    * bid wanted * most wanted * offer wanted * wanted cargo * wanted notice * wanted poster

    Verb

    (head)
  • (want)

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    wonted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
  • * 1836 , (Charles Dickens), (Sketches by Boz): illustrative of every-day life and every-day people:
    • Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • * 2008 , William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
    • Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
  • * 2008 (tr.?), (Lodovico Ariosto), (Orlando Furioso):
    • But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved [...]

    Related terms

    * wont * wontedly * wone