need
[need]
/ nid /
NOUN
want, requirement
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Antonyms
NOUN
poverty
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Antonyms
NOUN
emergency; pressing lack
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
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VERB
want something
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
be deficient
be deprived
be down and out
be hard up
be in need of
be in want
be inadequate
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
Antonyms
Usage
What are other ways to say need? 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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
