Cost
Cost noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.
Want
Want noun - The fact or state of being absent.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| total | total cost | total want |
| original | original cost | original want |
| true | true cost | true want |
| actual | actual cost | actual want |
| Other adjectives: real, extreme, great, enormous, little, horrible, decent, personal, possible, higher. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Power at a Price: The tree will give a person anything they want...but at the cost of sapping away their life.
Source: Literature / The Night Gardener - The Dark Side of Dimensions, Kaiba has forgotten his want to bury the past and focus on the future, instead focusing on seeing and dueling the Pharaoh one more time no matter the cost.
Source: Aesop Amnesia -
Aesop Amnesia: With Atem gone Kaiba has forgotten his want to bury the past and focus on the future, instead focusing on seeing and dueling him one more time no matter the cost.
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