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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, wantAntonyms:
choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertaintyPreposition:
The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.
Princeton's WordNet
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, penuryneed, wantnoun
anything that is necessary but lacking
"he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
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indigence, pauperism, deprivation, demand, pauperization, wish, wishing, privation, deficiency, motive, motivation, lack, neediness, want, penurymotivation, 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, penuryindigence, 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, penurynecessitate, 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, conductwant, need, requireverb
have need of
"This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
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take, require, expect, demand, involve, ask, desire, command, postulate, call for, necessitate, wantneedverb
have or feel a need for
"always needing friends and money"
Synonyms:
take, involve, require, demand, ask, postulate, call for, necessitate, want
Dictionary of English Synonymes
neednoun
neednoun
Synonyms:
indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, distressneedverb
Synonyms:
want, require, lack, be in want of, stand in want of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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, MD
need
Synonyms:
See Basic need, Self-actualisation need
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How to use need in a sentence?
When you look at the Democratic Party and you're doing an analysis, you find very few people have ever been part of law enforcement, and we have demonized public protection in this city and country because we have too many abusive officers who are allowed to stay in our agency. But at the same time, we have ignored the problems that fed violence in our country, and I say we need to stop doing that.
About 22 % to 30 % of people reported that their first experiences of weight stigma happened by age 10, but weight stigma by family persists over time, well into adulthood, that really speaks to the need to address the family environment, which often gets neglected in the context of weight stigma.
Theyre running around from room to room, the hospitals are packed, and if were not sending food, a lot of them are not eating, basically anywhere that we get a note from a nurse or a doctor telling us that theyre in need, we figure out a way to get them on the schedule and then we deliver to that hospital.
We need to have a high state of readiness to deter North Korea or, god forbid, defend South Korea, if you don't have those exercises, readiness erodes very quickly, working together, getting that interoperability correct.
If they are paying attention at all they know most of that [ rent relief ] hasn't gotten to anyone yet, many judges will push back and give tenants a chance. Take a moment to at least ask them,' Have you applied ?' And judges may be telling landlords,' Before you file to evict, you need to apply for rent relief first.'.
Translations for need
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- يحتاج, ضرورة, حاجة, احتاجArabic
- necessitar, haver de, caldre, requerir, necessitatCatalan, Valencian
- potřeba, potřebovatCzech
- behov, behøveDanish
- brauchen, Notwendigkeit, benötigen, Bedürfnis, BedarfGerman
- χρειάζομαιGreek
- bezoni, bezonoEsperanto
- necesidades, necesidad, necesitarSpanish
- احتیاج داشتن, نیاز داشتن, نیازPersian
- tarve, tarvita, täytyäFinnish
- nécessité, [[être]] [[obligé]] de, besoin, avoir besoin deFrench
- riachtanasIrish
- feumScottish Gaelic
- necesitar, precisar, requirirGalician
- ज़रूरत होना, ज़रूरत, मुहताज होना, जरुरतHindi
- szükségHungarian
- կարիք, կարիք ունենալArmenian
- necessitate, besoniar, besonioInterlingua
- bezono, bezonarIdo
- aver bisogno di, necessità, bisognoItalian
- צוֹר� ךHebrew
- してはいけない, 要る, 必要Japanese
- ត្រូវការKhmer
- 필요, 요하다Korean
- egeo, desidero, necessitas, debeo, requiro, obligor, necessitudoLatin
- ຕ້ອງການLao
- vajadzība, vajadzētLatvian
- потреба, мора, зорт, треба, нуждаMacedonian
- għand bżonnMaltese
- behoeven, vereisen, moeten hebben, behoefte, moeten, benodigen, nodig hebbenDutch
- trengeNorwegian
- besonhOccitan
- potrzeba, potrzebowaćPolish
- necessidade, precisar, necessitarPortuguese
- basegn, avair basegn daRomansh
- trebui, nevoie, necesitate, cerințăRomanian
- требоваться, нуждаться, необходимость, нужда, потребность, быть нужнымRussian
- trebatiSerbo-Croatian
- potrebovati, rabitiSlovene
- nödgas, behöva, måste, behovSwedish
- అవసరముTelugu
- ต้องการThai
- pangangailanganTagalog
- gereklilik, ihtiyaç duymak, ihtiyaç, gerekmek, gereksinim duymak, ihtiyacı olmak, -malı, gereksinim, lazım olmak, gereksinmek, -meli, eksik, zorunda olmak, gereksinimi olmakTurkish
- нужда, необхідність, потребаUkrainian
- ضرورتUrdu
- cần, muốnVietnamese
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