find wanting
English edit
Verb edit
find wanting (third-person singular simple present finds wanting, present participle finding wanting, simple past and past participle found wanting)
- Show to be not good enough.
Usage notes edit
- Chiefly used in the passive voice: found wanting.
Translations edit
Translations
Further reading edit
- “found wanting”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “tried and found wanting”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “be found wanting” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.