wantful

comparative more wantful · superlative most wantful

1. Full of want or lack; lacking; poor.

   Nor rank, nor wealth, I ask, but let me be Above contempt, and wantful poverty.

   1807, Robert Southey, Specimens of the later English poets

2. Full of want or desire; desirous.

   Greaves's soul had up to that moment been "wantful, lustful,” and "working actively in lower regions,” but now it became “receptive of Spirit from the higher elements.

   2010, Richard Francis, Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia