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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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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How to use need in a sentence?

1. Xi Jinping:

   Chinese-German relations are now about to have a new start where we need new breakthroughs.

2. Brandon Williams:

   It's something this country has needed for a long time now, we need each and every officer to be held accountable. And until then, it's still scary to be a Black man and woman in America encountering police.

3. Simon Walker:

   Scrabbling around to find measures to hit a bizarre and unachievable migration target is no way to give British businesses the stable environment they need.

4. George Bernard Shaw:

   The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

5. Franklin Graham:

   We need more Christians in politics. I want to encourage Christians to run for every political level, i'm not talking about just at the presidential level, I'm talking about all levels of government.