Antonyms for require
rɪˈkwaɪərre·quire

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1. require

   One asks what he feels that he may fairly claim and reasonably expect; "if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father," Luke xi, 11; he begs for that to which he advances no claim but pity. Demand is a determined and often an arrogant word; one may rightfully demand what is his own or his due, when it is withheld or denied; or he may wrongfully demand that to which he has no claim but power. Require is less arrogant and obtrusive than demand, but is exceedingly strenuous; as, the court requires the attendance of witnesses. Entreat implies a special earnestness of asking, and beseech, a still added and more humble intensity; beseech was formerly often used as a polite intensive for beg or pray; as, I beseech you to tell me. To implore is to ask with weeping and lamentation; to supplicate is to ask, as it were, on bended knees. Crave and request are somewhat formal terms; crave has almost disappeared from conversation; request would seem distant between parent and child. Pray is now used chiefly of address to the Supreme Being; petition is used of written request to persons in authority; as, to petition the legislature to pass an act, or the governor to pardon an offender.

   Antonyms:
   claim, command, deny, enforce, exact, extort, insist, refuse, reject

   Synonyms:
   ask, beg, beseech, crave, demand, entreat, implore, petition, pray, request, solicit, supplicate

   Preposition:
   Ask a person for a thing; ask a thing of or from a person; ask after or about one's health, welfare, friends, etc.

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1. require

   Synonyms:
   demand, claim, exact, insist upon

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1. 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:
   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

2. ask, require, expectverb

   consider obligatory; request and expect

   "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

   Synonyms:
   await, call for, demand, enquire, inquire, need, look, involve, wait, want, have a bun in the oven, necessitate, postulate, anticipate, gestate, take, carry, ask, command, expect, bear

3. command, requireverb

   make someone do something

   Synonyms:
   need, command, expect, take, involve, ask, overlook, dominate, call for, postulate, overtop, control, necessitate, want, demand

4. want, need, requireverb

   have need of

   "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

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

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1. requireverb

   Synonyms:
   demand, claim, exact, need, want, necessitate, enjoin

How to use require in a sentence?

1. Lindsey Graham:

   We will push back strongly to register our displeasure. It is already part of our law that would require us to stop funding if they actually bring a case.

2. Mark Brownstein:

   If you don't look for these things, you don't find them in time, it's a dramatic example of a phenomenon that is common, and it's the reason why it becomes so critically important for the feds and the states to require systematic leak detection and repair programs.

3. Biden TransitionBiden:

   I am not going to shut down the economy, period. I'm going to shut down the virus. That's what I'm going to shut down, no national shutdown, because every region, every area, every community can be different. And so there's no circumstance which I can see that would require total national shutdown.

4. George McGovern:

   It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

5. Terri Sewell:

   Alabama can not require photo identification for voting and then make decisions to close DMV offices in communities that are disproportionately African American, rural, and low income. Not on my watch !

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