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| 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: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, requirement |
| Synonyms: | charge, commitment, compulsion, demand, duty, essential, exigency, extremity, longing, must, obligation, occasion, requisite, right, urgency, use, weakness, wish, committal, desideratum, devoir, ought, the urge |
| Antonyms: | have |
| Main Entry: | need |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poverty |
| Synonyms: | deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, paucity, penury, poorness, privation, shortage, want, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, pennilessness |
| 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: | absence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of lacking something needed or usual |
| Synonyms: | dearth, deficiency, drought, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, omission, privation, void, want, unavailability |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, plenty |
| 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: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | care, commitment, concern, custody, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight, committal, deadweight, ought |
| 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: | 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, reasoning, recognition, regard, percipience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | commitment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assurance; obligation |
| Synonyms: | charge, duty, engagement, guarantee, liability, must, need, pledge, promise, responsibility, undertaking, vow, word, committal, devoir, ought |
| Antonyms: | denial, refusal, broken promise |
| Main Entry: | compulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, obligation |
| Synonyms: | coercion, constraint, demand, drive, driving, duress, duty, exigency, force, hang-up, monkey*, necessity, need, obsession, preoccupation, pressure, urge, urgency, engrossment, have on the brain, prepossession, tiger by the tail |
| Antonyms: | free will, freedom, independence, liberty, license |
* = 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
| Main Entry: | concentration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consolidation of effort |
| Synonyms: | absorption, application, assembly, centralization, combination, compression, concern, congregation, consolidation, convergence, debate, deliberation, fixing, heed, narrowing, need, study, unity, amassing, bringing to bear, centering, close attention, clustering, coalescing, compacting, converging, flocking, focusing, huddling, intensification, massing, single-mindedness |
| Main Entry: | consequence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, significance |
| Synonyms: | account, concern, exigency, fame, honor, import, interest, magnitude, moment, need, note, pith, portent, renown, reputation, value, weight, momentousness, repute, signification, weightiness |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance, worthlessness |
| 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: | craving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, hankering, hunger, itch*, longing, lust, need, passion, thirst, urge, yearning, yen*, appetition, hurting, munchies |
| Antonyms: | dislike, distaste, hate, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dearth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insufficiency, scarcity |
| Synonyms: | absence, default, defect, deficiency, famine, inadequacy, infrequency, lack, meagerness, miss, need, paucity, poverty, privation, shortage, want, exiguousness, rareness, scantiness, scantness, slim pickings, sparsity, uncommonness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, excess, plenty, sufficiency, plentifulness |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imperfection, inadequacy |
| Synonyms: | absence, bug*, dearth, default, defect, deficit, demerit, dereliction, failing, failure, fault, flaw, frailty, glitch*, insufficiency, lack, loss, need, neglect, paucity, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness, defalcation, inability to hack it, insufficience, scantiness |
| Antonyms: | adequacy, enough, perfection, plenty, satisfaction, sufficiency, superfluity, faultlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | require |
| Synonyms: | ask, call for, command, crave, fail, involve, lack, necessitate, need, oblige, take, want, cry out for |
| Antonyms: | give, present, supply |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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