Somebody out there wants you. That is the whole word. What changes from one use to the next is only who is doing the wanting, and what they will do when they find you: the police want to catch you, an employer wants to hire you, a family wants you at the table.
From the word’s history
want + -ed. The adjective is simply the past participle of want used to describe the person or thing being wanted.
wanted 來自 want 加上 -ed。這個形容詞其實就是 want 的過去分詞拿來描述「被想要的那一邊」。所以它的所有用法都只是同一句話的不同場合：有人想要這個人或這樣東西。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract) etymology for wanted adj: from want + -ed, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1068231919:14141
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wantedadj/ˈwɒn.tɪd/
- 1
Wished for; desired; sought.
- Wanted: babysitter
- She was the most wanted speaker at the conference.
- 2
governmentlaw-enforcementSubject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.
- America’s most wanted
- The police arrested a wanted criminal.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。