1. (noun)need, demand a condition requiring relief Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, demand, pauperization, requirement, motive, motivation, want, penury
2. (noun)need, want anything that is necessary but lacking Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperism, deprivation, demand, pauperization, wish, wishing, privation, deficiency, motive, motivation, lack, neediness, want, penury
3. (noun)motivation, motive, need the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior Synonyms: indigence, need, motivating, demand, pauperization, want, motive, motivation, pauperism, motif, penury
4. (verb)indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization a state of extreme poverty or destitution Synonyms: motive, need, pauperism, demand, impoverishment, pauperization, indigence, motivation, pauperisation, want, penury
5. (verb)necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand require as useful, just, or proper Synonyms: require, read, pick up, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, inquire, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, study, learn, fill, necessitate, bespeak, invite, imply, consume, drive, hire, posit, consider, need, rent, pick out, collect, quest, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, gather up, lease, take aim, want, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, make, claim, regard, enquire, request, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, call for, affect, expect, bring, command, submit, convey, shoot, aim, direct, contend, charter, get, contain, take in, subscribe, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct
6. (verb)want, need, require have need of Synonyms: take, need, require, expect, demand, involve, ask, desire, command, postulate, call for, necessitate, want
7. (verb)need have or feel a need for Synonyms: take, involve, require, demand, ask, postulate, call for, necessitate, want
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'need'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. need Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used Synonyms: necessity, compulsion, fatality, requisite, destiny, fate, sine qua non, emergency, indispensability, unavoidableness, essential, indispensableness, urgency, exigency, need, want, extremity, requirement Antonyms: choice, doubt, dubiousness, freedom, possibility, contingency, doubtfulness, fortuity, option, uncertainty
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