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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
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:

do not want, have
Main Entry: needed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: wanted

Synonyms:

desired, essential, necessary, required, vital
Related Words
Main Entry: need
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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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
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: 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: concentrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: think about closely

Synonyms:

apply, attend, be engrossed in, bring to bear, brood over, center, consider closely, contemplate, crack one's brains, direct attention, establish, examine, fix attention, fixate, focus, focus attention, get on the beam, give attention, hammer away at, hammer*, head trip, intensify, knuckle down, meditate, muse, need, occupy thoughts, peruse, ponder, pour it on, put, put mind to, rack one's brains, rivet, ruminate, scrutinize, set, settle, study, sweat, think hard, weigh
Main Entry: crave
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: desire intensely

Synonyms:

ache for, covet, cry out for, die for, dream, eat one's heart out, fancy, give eyeteeth for, hunger for, itch for, long for, lust after, need, pine for, require, sigh for, spoil for, suspire, thirst for, want, yearn for, yen for

Antonyms:

abjure, dislike, hate, not want, spurn
Main Entry: demand
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: require

Synonyms:

ask, call for, command, crave, cry out for, fail, involve, lack, necessitate, need, oblige, take, want

Antonyms:

give, present, supply
Main Entry: devoid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: empty, wanting

Synonyms:

bare, barren, bereft, deficient, denuded, destitute, free from, innocent, lacking, needed, sans, unprovided with, vacant, void, without
Notes: void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away

Antonyms:

complete, filled, full
Main Entry: essential
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: important, vital

Synonyms:

capital, cardinal, chief, constitutive, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, right-hand, wanted

Antonyms:

accessory, auxiliary, inessential, minor, nonessential, secondary, subsidiary, unimportant
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