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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
| Synonyms: | call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, essential, exaction, exigency, fundamental, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, must, necessary, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, obligation, pinch, precondition, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, stress, undeniability, urgency, vital part, vitals, want |
| Antonyms: | desire, want |
| 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: | press |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strain, pressure |
| Synonyms: | bustle, confusion, demand, hassle, haste, hurry, rush, stress, urgency |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand, difficulty |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, albatross, burden, choke, clout, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, crunch, discipline, distress, drag, duress, exigency, force, full court press, hardship, hassle, heat, hurry, influence, inside track, load, misfortune, necessity, obligation, persuasion, power, press, pressure cooker, pull, requirement, strain, stress, sway, tension, trouble, unnaturalness, urgency, weight |
| Antonyms: | ease, facility, peace |
| Main Entry: | requirement/requisite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, want |
| Synonyms: | claim, compulsion, concern, condition, demand, desideratum, element, engrossment, essential, exaction, exigency, extremity, fulfillment, fundamental, imperative, lack, must, need, obligation, obsession, pinch, precondition, preliminary, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequisite, prescription, provision, proviso, qualification, sine qua non, specification, stipulation, terms, urgency, vital part |
| Antonyms: | desire, option, wish |
| Main Entry: | rush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurry, speed |
| Synonyms: | blitz, charge, dash, dispatch, expedition, flood, flow, flux, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, race, scramble, stream, surge, swiftness, urgency |
| Antonyms: | retardation, slowness |
| Main Entry: | seriousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger; criticalness |
| Synonyms: | enormity, gravity, importance, moment, significance, urgency, weight |
| Antonyms: | triviality, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | speed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rate of motion, often a high rate |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, activity, agility, alacrity, breeze, briskness, celerity, clip, dispatch, eagerness, expedition, fleetness, gait, haste, headway, hurry, hustle, legerity, lick, liveliness, momentum, pace, precipitancy, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, rush, rustle, snap, steam, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
| Notes: | speed is the distance an object travels during a unit of time; velocity is the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of time |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emphasis |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuation, beat, force, import, importance, significance, urgency, weight |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, unimportance |
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