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needed - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | needed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanted |
| Synonyms: | essential, necessary, required, vital, desired |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want something |
| Synonyms: | call for, claim, covet, crave, demand, desire, do without, exact, hanker, hunger, lack, long, lust, miss, necessitate, pine, require, thirst, wish, yearn, 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, die for, drive for, feel a dearth of, feel the necessity for, feel the pinch, go hungry, have occasion for, have occasion to, have use for, hurt for, suffer privation, 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: | have, do not want |
| Main Entry: | devoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, wanting |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, bereft, deficient, destitute, innocent, lacking, needed, vacant, void, without, denuded, free from, sans, unprovided with |
| Antonyms: | complete, filled, full |
| Main Entry: | indispensable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | basal, basic, cardinal, crucial, essential, fundamental, imperative, key, needed, prerequisite, primary, required, requisite, vital, necessitous, needful |
| Antonyms: | dispensable, needless, nonessential, redundant, superfluous, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | lacking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wanting, deficient |
| Synonyms: | can't cut it, coming up short, defective, deprived of, flawed, impaired, inadequate, incomplete, minus, missing, needed, needing, not hacking it, not making it, sans, short, without |
| Antonyms: | abundant, enough, having, profuse, sufficient |
| Main Entry: | required/requisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, compulsory, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital, called for, compulsatory, condign, demanded, needful |
| Antonyms: | nonessential, optional, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | wanting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | absent, away, bankrupt, bereft, cut off, defective, deficient, destitute, devoid, disappointing, empty, failing, faulty, gone, half-baked*, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, less, minus, missing, needed, omitted, patchy, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy, sketchy, substandard, unsound, burned out, cooked, deprived, in default, not good enough, not up to par, out of gas, scant, too little too late, unfulfilled |
| Antonyms: | adequate, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | required |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, compulsory, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, requisite, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital, called for, compulsatory, condign, demanded, needful |
| Antonyms: | optional, inessential |
| Main Entry: | essential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important, vital |
| Synonyms: | capital, cardinal, chief, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, needed, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, wanted, constitutive, necessitous, needful, right-hand |
| Antonyms: | accessory, auxiliary, minor, nonessential, secondary, subsidiary, unimportant, inessential |
| Main Entry: | necessary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
| Synonyms: | basic, binding, cardinal, chief, compelling, compulsory, crucial, de rigueur*, decisive, elementary, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, momentous, needed, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, quintessential, required, requisite, significant, specified, unavoidable, urgent, vital, wanted, all-important, bottom-line, incumbent on, name of game, needful |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, unnecessary, useless, inessential |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vital |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
| Synonyms: | basic, cardinal, critical, crucial, decisive, fundamental, heavy*, imperative, important, indispensable, integral, key, meaningful, name, necessary, needed, nitty-gritty*, prerequisite, required, requisite, significant, urgent, bottom-line, coal-and-ice, constitutive, life-or-death, meat-and-potatoes, name-of-the-game, underlined |
| Antonyms: | trivial, unimportant, inessential, insignficant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | requested |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | wanted |
| Synonyms: | hunted, needed, solicited, sought, appealed, asked, demanded, desired, petitioned, requisitioned, wished |
| Main Entry: | wanted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | desired |
| Synonyms: | necessary, needed, requested, asked for |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | missed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | longed for |
| Synonyms: | needed, wanted, craved, desired, wished for, yearned for |
| Antonyms: | hated, unwanted, disliked |
| Main Entry: | perfect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accurate, correct |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, bull's-eye, certain, close, dead-on*, definite, distinct, exact, express, faithful, fit, ideal, model, needed, on target, on the button, on the money, precise, proper, required, requisite, right, sharp, strict, suitable, textbook, to a T, to a turn, true, unerring, very |
| Antonyms: | imperfect, imprecise, inaccurate, wrong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useful, adequate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, apt, auspicious, becoming, beneficial, brave, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, wholesome, approving, benefic, benignant, commendatory, commending, favoring, unobjectionable |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, rotten, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | call for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand; entail |
| Synonyms: | inquire, involve, lack, necessitate, need, occasion, request, require, suggest, want, ask for |
| 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, hit, hold, insist, justify, knock, need, pick up, pop the question*, postulate, pretend, profess, pronounce, require, requisition, solicit, take, uphold, vindicate, have dibs on something, hit up, hold out for, lay claim to, stake out |
| Antonyms: | deny, disclaim, question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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