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Definitions for Need

[1] a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
[2] a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary: to fulfill the needs of the assignment.
[3] urgent want, as of something requisite: He has no need of your charity.
[4] necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case: There is no need to worry.
[5] a situation or time of difficulty; exigency: to help a friend in need; to be a friend in need.
[6] a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership.
[7] destitution; extreme poverty: The family's need is acute.
[8] to have need of; require: to need money.
[9] to be under an obligation (used as an auxiliary, typically in an interrogative or in a negative statement, and followed by infinitive, in certain cases without to; in the 3d person singular the form is need, not needs ): He need not go.
[10] to be in need or want.
[11] to be necessary: There needs no apology.
[12] if need be , should the necessity arise: If need be, I can type the letters myself.
[13] (tr) to be in want of to need money
[14] (tr) to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged to need to do more work
[15] (takes an infinitive without to) used as an auxiliary in negative and interrogative sentences to express necessity or obligation, and does not add -s when used with he, she, it, and singular nouns need he go?
[16] (intr) archaic to be essential or necessary to there needs no reason for this
[17] the fact or an instance of feeling the lack of something he has need of a new coat
[18] a requirement the need for vengeance
[19] necessity or obligation resulting from some situation no need to be frightened
[20] distress or extremity a friend in need
[21] extreme poverty or destitution; penury

Words related to Need

use, right, wish, commitment, demand, obligation, urgency, lack, want, shortage, necessity, desire, require, duty, longing, exigency, extremity, weakness, charge, occasion

Words nearby Need

nedda, neddy, nederland, nedette, nee, need, need like a hole in the head, needed, needfire, needful, needham

Origin of Need

before 900; (noun) Middle English nede, Old English nēd (WSaxon nīed ), cognate with German Not, Old Norse nauth, Gothic nauths; (v.) Middle English neden, Old English nēodian, derivative of the noun

Other words from Need

need·er , noun
un·need·ed , adjective
well-need·ed , adjective

Word origin for Need

Old English nēad, nied; related to Old Frisian nēd, Old Saxon nōd, Old High German nōt

Synonyms for Need

commitment, demand, obligation, right, urgency, use, wish, charge, committal, compulsion, desideratum, devoir, duty, essential, exigency, extremity, longing, must, occasion, requisite, weakness, ought, the urge