| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, requirement |
Synonyms: |
charge, commitment, committal, compulsion, demand, desideratum, devoir, duty, essential, exigency, extremity, longing, must, obligation, occasion, ought, requisite, right, the urge, urgency, use, weakness, wish |
| Notes: | knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of |
Antonyms: |
have |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
Synonyms: |
deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, neediness, paucity, pennilessness, penury, poorness, privation, shortage, want |
Antonyms: |
luxury, riches, wealth |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emergency; pressing lack |
Synonyms: |
deficiency, exigency, inadequacy, insufficiency, necessity, obligation, shortage, urgency, want |
Antonyms: |
comfort, fortune, have, plenty |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want something |
Synonyms: |
be deficient, be deprived, be down and out, be hard up, be in need of, be in want, be inadequate, be needy, be poor, be short, be without, call for, claim, covet, crave, demand, desire, die for, do without, drive for, exact, feel a dearth of, feel the necessity for, feel the pinch, go hungry, hanker, have occasion for, have occasion to, have use for, hunger, hurt for, lack, long, lust, miss, necessitate, pine, require, suffer privation, thirst, wish, yearn, yen for |
Antonyms: |
do not want, have |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
instant, absorbing, called for, crying, destitute, equinecessary, essential, exigent, imperative, in demand, in request, in want of, indispensable, inopious, necessary, needful, prerequisite, pressing, required, requisite, urgent
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| Main Entry: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of lacking something needed or usual |
Synonyms: |
dearth, deficiency, drought, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, omission, privation, unavailability, void, want |
Antonyms: |
abundance, enough, plenty |
| Main Entry: | call for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand; entail |
Synonyms: |
ask for, inquire, involve, lack, necessitate, need, occasion, request, require, suggest, want |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
Synonyms: |
care, commitment, committal, concern, custody, deadweight, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, ought, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight |
| Main Entry: | claim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, maintain property or right |
Synonyms: |
adduce, advance, allege, ask, assert, believe, call for, challenge, collect, declare, defend, exact, have dibs on something, hit, hit up, hold, hold out for, insist, justify, knock, lay claim to, need, pick up, pop the question, postulate, pretend, profess, pronounce, require, requisition, solicit, stake out, take, uphold, vindicate |
Antonyms: |
deny, disclaim, question |
| Main Entry: | cognizance/cognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, percipience, reasoning, recognition, regard |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, misunderstanding |