need

Main Entry:
need [need]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: want, requirement
Synonyms: charge, commitment, committal, compulsion, demand, desideratum, devoir, duty, essential, exigency, extremity, longing, must, obligation, occasion, ought, requisite, right, the urge, urgency, use, weakness, wish
Notes: knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of
Antonyms: have
Main Entry: need
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: emergency; pressing lack
Synonyms: deficiency, exigency, inadequacy, insufficiency, necessity, obligation, shortage, urgency, want
Notes: knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of
Antonyms: comfort, fortune, have, plenty
Main Entry: need
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: want something
Synonyms: 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, call for, claim, covet, crave, demand, desire, die for, do without, drive for, exact, feel a dearth of, feel the necessity for, feel the pinch, go hungry, hanker, have occasion for, have occasion to, have use for, hunger, hurt for, lack, long, lust, miss, necessitate, pine, require, suffer privation, thirst, wish, yearn, yen for
Notes: knead means to make into a uniform mass, as by folding, pressing, and stretching with the hands or manually manipulate someone's body usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; a need (noun) is something required or wanted - need (verb) means to require or have a need of
Antonyms: do not want, have
Related Words
Main Entry: need
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
absorbing, called for, crying, destitute, equinecessary, essential, exigent, imperative, in demand, in request, in want of, indispensable, inopious, instant, necessary, needful, prerequisite, pressing, required, requisite, urgent
Main Entry: absence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of lacking something needed or usual
Synonyms: dearth, deficiency, drought, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, omission, privation, unavailability, void, want
Antonyms: abundance, enough, plenty
Main Entry: call for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: demand; entail
Synonyms: ask for, inquire, involve, lack, necessitate, need, occasion, request, require, suggest, want
Main Entry: charge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burden
Synonyms: care, commitment, committal, concern, custody, deadweight, duty, millstone, must, need, obligation, office, onus, ought, responsibility, right, safekeeping, task, tax, trust, ward, weight
Main Entry: claim
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: demand, maintain property or right
Synonyms: 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
Antonyms: deny, disclaim, question
Main Entry: cognizance/cognition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: understanding
Synonyms: acknowledgment, apprehension, attention, awareness, comprehension, discernment, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, need, note, notice, observance, observation, perception, percipience, reasoning, recognition, regard
Antonyms: ignorance, misunderstanding
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