Synonyms for need
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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 in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person's want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

   Antonyms:
   choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

   Preposition:
   The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

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1. need, demandnoun

   a condition requiring relief

   "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"

   Synonyms:
   indigence, pauperism, demand, pauperization, requirement, motive, motivation, want, penury

2. need, wantnoun

   anything that is necessary but lacking

   "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"

   Synonyms:
   indigence, pauperism, deprivation, demand, pauperization, wish, wishing, privation, deficiency, motive, motivation, lack, neediness, want, penury

3. motivation, motive, neednoun

   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

   "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

   Synonyms:
   indigence, motivating, demand, pauperization, want, motive, motivation, pauperism, motif, penury

4. indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperizationverb

   a state of extreme poverty or destitution

   "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

   Synonyms:
   motive, pauperism, demand, impoverishment, pauperization, indigence, motivation, pauperisation, want, penury

5. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demandverb

   require as useful, just, or proper

   "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

   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, 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. want, need, requireverb

   have need of

   "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

   Synonyms:
   take, require, expect, demand, involve, ask, desire, command, postulate, call for, necessitate, want

7. needverb

   have or feel a need for

   "always needing friends and money"

   Synonyms:
   take, involve, require, demand, ask, postulate, call for, necessitate, want

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Condition
   • Necessity

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1. neednoun

   Synonyms:
   necessity, want, exigency, urgency, emergency

2. neednoun

   Synonyms:
   indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, distress

3. needverb

   Synonyms:
   want, require, lack, be in want of, stand in want of

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1. neednoun

   Synonyms:
   want, necessity, extremity, strait, exigency, urgency, poverty, penury, privation, indigence

2. needverb

   Synonyms:
   require, lack, want

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1. List of paraphrases for "need":

   necessity, require, necessary, needs, needed, required, requirement, importance, requires, imperative, demand, besoin, requirements, gotta

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. need

   Synonyms:
   See Basic need, Self-actualisation need
   

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1. Eddy M Reyes:

   Loves is nature. Loves come first in a relationship. You have no time for me. I can't force you to give me time. Loves don't need words. Loves it shows by itself. Loves breaks the impossible.

2. The Argentine pope:

   The time has come to promote policies which create employment, but above all there is a need to restore dignity to labor by ensuring proper working conditions, this implies, on the one hand, finding new ways of joining market flexibility with the need for stability and security on the part of workers; these are indispensable for their human development.

3. Leron Shalit:

   This feels like the last opportunity to do something. Things are getting really serious, we want to send a message about staying in the euro because if we go back to the drachma, things will be incredibly difficult. We don't need to get to that point.

4. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz:

   We need to negotiate trade deals protecting American workers first, not the corporate boardroom.

5. Ann Wagner:

   This legislation is going to give prosecutors the tools that they need to make sure that no online website, platform, business can ever reach the size and scope of Backpage.com.