wanted meaning
EN
[ˈwɑntʰɪd] [ˈwɒntʰɪd] 
US UK WWanted
- Wanted may refer to:
- Fugitive, a person wanted by law enforcement authorities
- Wanted poster, a poster put up to let the public know of a criminal whom authorities wish to apprehend
- VerbPREwan-SUF-ed
- simple past tense and past participle of want.
- simple past tense and past participle of want.
- AdjectiveCOMmore wantedSUPmost wanted
- wished for; desired; sought.
- (law) subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.
- wished for; desired; sought.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- For a nervous twenty-four hours, three wanted criminals were at large in the city.
- Walking around SoHo's glamorous bistros and boutiques it is difficult to imagine that a few decades ago the area was urban blight that the city wanted to knock down and build a freeway through.
- The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The old mayor pissed millions of dollars away on stuff nobody wanted.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of wanted in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -ed
- Words suffixed with -ed
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Verbs
- Verb forms
- Participles
- Past participles
- Past participles
- Verb simple past forms
- Participles
- Verb forms
- Adjectives
- en wantedness
- en wanted cargo
- en wanted poster
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "wanted" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.