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need

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of need

1 a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful

when it came time to wrap the presents, he found he was in need of adhesive tape

Synonyms of need

absence, lack, needfulness, want

Words Related to need

deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency

dearth, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness

defect, minus

deprivation, famishment, privation

demand, essential, necessity, requirement, requisite

Near Antonyms of need

adequacy, enough, sufficiency

fund, pool, stock, supply

excess, fill, overabundance, oversupply, plenty, surfeit, surplus

hoard, stockpile

2 something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable

got a job that barely provided for his basic needs

Synonyms of need

condition, demand, essential, must, must-have, necessary, necessity, needful, requirement, requisite, sine qua non

Words Related to need

precondition, prerequisite

advantage, edge, plus

desideration, desideratum, wish

Near Antonyms of need

amenity, comfort, extra, extravagance, frill, indulgence, luxury, superfluity, surplus, surplusage

Antonyms of need

nonessential, nonnecessity

3 something one must do because of prior agreement

no need to apologize

Synonyms of need

burden, charge, commitment, devoir, do [archaic], duty, imperative, incumbency, obligation, office, responsibility

Words Related to need

oath, pledge, promise, troth, vow, word

arrangement, prearrangement, setup

compact, contract, covenant, pact, trust

debt, payment, tribute

compulsion, constraint, restraint

must, requirement

coercion, duress, force

appointment, engagement, reservation

burden, onus

Near Antonyms of need

grace, postponement, stay

discharge, ease, exemption, release, relief, waiver

loophole

alternative, choice, option, pick, preference, selection

4 the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions

donating money to help those in need

Synonyms of need

beggary, destituteness, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, necessity, neediness, pauperism, penuriousness, penury, poorness, poverty, want

Words Related to need

gutter, misery, woe, wretchedness

exigency

emergency, rainy day

austerity, deprivation, privation

bankruptcy, insolvency

belt-tightening, pinching, straitening

Near Antonyms of need

luxury, prosperity

Antonyms of need

affluence, opulence, richness, wealth, wealthiness

need

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of need

1 to have as a requirement

a national crisis that needs a strong leader to solve it

Synonyms of need

bear, challenge, claim, demand, necessitate, require, take, want, warrant

Words Related to need

entail, involve

ask, beg, claim, clamor (for), cry (for)

hurt (for), lack

command, enjoin, exact, insist, press, quest, stipulate

Phrases Synonymous with need

call for

Near Antonyms of need

own, possess

Antonyms of need

have, hold

2 to be under necessity or obligation to

you need not stand when she enters the room

Synonyms of need

have (to), must, ought (to), shall, should

Words Related to need

will

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