Thesaurus / need
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synonyms for need
- lack
- shortage
- want
- deprivation
- destitution
- distress
- extremity
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insufficiency
- neediness
- paucity
- pennilessness
- penury
- poorness
- privation
- call for
- demand
- desire
- lack
- require
- claim
- covet
- crave
- exact
- hanker
- hunger
- long
- lust
- miss
- necessitate
- pine
- thirst
- wish
- yearn
- be deficient
- be deprived
- be down and out
- be hard up
- be inadequate
- be in need of
- be in want
- be needy
- be poor
- be short
- be without
- die for
- do without
- drive for
- feel a dearth of
- feel the necessity for
- feel the pinch
- go hungry
- have occasion for
- have occasion to
- have use for
- hurt for
- suffer privation
- yen for
On this page you'll find 230 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to need, such as: commitment, demand, obligation, right, urgency, and use.
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The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, occurs most frequently in serious or formal contexts: Your presence at the hearing is required. Successful experimentation requires careful attention to detail. Lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough members to make a quorum.
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Vosloo led the drafting of a new set of guidelines from Unicef designed to help governments and companies develop AI policies that consider children’s needs.
WHY KIDS NEED SPECIAL PROTECTION FROM AI’S INFLUENCEKAREN HAOSEPTEMBER 17, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThat raises the question of a marketer’s need for NBCU’s measurement program if it already has one in place.
NBCUNIVERSAL TESTS NEW MEASUREMENT PROGRAM TO PROVE IT CAN PUSH PRODUCT SALES FOR ADVERTISERSTIM PETERSONSEPTEMBER 17, 2020DIGIDAYThe project will be the first in the county to recycle wastewater, providing more than 32 percent of the city’s needs, according to a Wednesday press release.
NORTH COUNTY REPORT: SCHOOLS ARE REOPENING FOR STUDENTS MOST IN NEEDKAYLA JIMENEZSEPTEMBER 16, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOIt seemed like there was no need for the justification because of the decree.
PODCAST: COVID-19 IS HELPING TURN BRAZIL INTO A SURVEILLANCE STATEANTHONY GREENSEPTEMBER 16, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe ability to develop digital capabilities quickly will continue to be critical for meeting customer needs and ensuring survival for your organization.
HOW TO DRIVE DIGITAL INNOVATION NECESSARY DURING THE PANDEMICNICK CHASINOVSEPTEMBER 16, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCHThere’s no need to have a live virus multiplying inside you.
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGISTS HAVE CREATED A SLOW-GROWING VERSION OF THE CORONAVIRUS TO GIVE AS A VACCINEDAVID ROTMANSEPTEMBER 16, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWWhen you’re building a company, the last thing you expect is the need to scale down and to lay off employees.
ARE YOU READY TO START TRAVELING FOR WORK AGAIN? TRIPACTIONS’ CEO IS BANKING ON ITMICHAL LEV-RAM, WRITERSEPTEMBER 15, 2020FORTUNENevertheless, our company remains committed to providing services that meet the real needs of our customers as an internet service provider.
THE EU’S TOP COURT JUST CLOSED A MAJOR LOOPHOLE IN EUROPE’S NET-NEUTRALITY RULESDAVID MEYERSEPTEMBER 15, 2020FORTUNESo it’s literally like we have decided to allow anything so that we don’t have to lie about anything and even when there is no need to lie, she’s still telling lies.
MAKING POLY LESS OF A PAIN IN THE ASSEUGENE ROBINSONSEPTEMBER 14, 2020OZYSome chefs, like David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, California, and Rich Landau of Vedge in Philadelphia, withdrew their names to make a point about the need for unity across the industry.
THE MESS THAT IS THE 2020 JAMES BEARD AWARDS, EXPLAINEDELAZAR SONTAGSEPTEMBER 11, 2020EATERWORDS RELATED TO NEED
- adduce
- advance
- allege
- ask
- assert
- believe
- call for
- challenge
- collect
- declare
- defend
- exact
- have dibs on something
- hit
- hit up
- hold
- hold out for
- insist
- justify
- knock
- lay claim to
- need
- pick up
- pop the question
- postulate
- pretend
- profess
- pronounce
- require
- requisition
- solicit
- stake out
- take
- uphold
- vindicate
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.