need
Meaning of need
noun
- A requirement for something; something needed.
I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- To have an absolute requirement for.
Living things need water to survive.
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
You need not go if you don't want to.
- To be required; to be necessary.
- To be necessary (to someone).
Information about need
- The plural form of need is: needs.
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Hyphenation of need
need
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- need is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
need synonyms
Meaning demand:
Meaning want:
Meaning motivation:
Meaning indigence:
indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization
Meaning necessitate:
necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, demand
Meaning :
desire, will, wish, be, lack, without
Translation of need
- German: entbehren, fehlen, Bedarf, brauchen
- French: manquer, besoin, nécessiter
- Spanish: necesitar, faltar, carecer, necesidad, necesidades, requerir
- Italian: necessità, esigenza, necessitare, abbisognare, fabbisogno, necessario, richiedere
- Portuguese: carência, precisar, necessitar, necessidade
Anagrams of need
Deen, deen, Dene, dene, Eden, eden, ende, ened
Words that rhyme with need
Vitaneed, gratineed, crookkneed, kneed, moutoneed, Sneed, sneed, snickersneed
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