need
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)needs, needed, needing
- require as useful, just, or proper“It takes nerve to do what she did”“success usually requires hard work”“This job asks a lot of patience and skill”“This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice”“This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert”“This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent”Synonyms: necessitateaskpostulaterequiretakeinvolvecall fordemandMore general refer, pertainMore specific take, depend on, deserve, cost, depend, claim, behoove, cry out for, compel, draw +1 moreSimilar claim, take
- have need of“This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner”Synonyms: wantrequireMore general exist, beMore specific cry
- have or feel a need for“always needing friends and money”More general want, require
Noun (4)needs
- a condition requiring relief“she satisfied his need for affection”“God has no need of men to accomplish His work”“there is a demand for jobs”Synonyms: demandType of condition, statusKinds lack, necessity
- anything that is necessary but lacking“he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs”“I tried to supply his wants”Synonyms: wantType of necessity, essential
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior“we did not understand his motivation”“he acted with the best of motives”Synonyms: motivationmotiveType of psychological featureKinds urge, ethical motive, life, irrational motive, psychic energy, rational motive
- a state of extreme poverty or destitution“their indigence appalled him”“a general state of need exists among the homeless”Synonyms: indigencepenurypauperismpauperizationType of poverty, poornessKinds beggary, mendicancy
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Translations
Verb to have an absolute requirement for
- Spanish
- necesitar
- French
- avoir besoin de
- German
- brauchen
- Italian
- avere bisogno di
- Portuguese
- precisar
- Turkish
- ihtiyaç duymak
- Russian
- нужда́ться nuždátʹsja
- Arabic
- اِحْتَاجَ iḥtāja
- Chinese
- 需要 xūyào
- Japanese
- 要る iru
36 more languages
- Dutch
- nodig hebben
- Polish
- potrzebować
- Swedish
- behöva
- Greek
- χρειάζομαι chreiázomai
- Korean
- 필요하다 piryohada
- Indonesian
- memerlukan
- Vietnamese
- cần
- Hungarian
- kell
- Portuguese (PT)
- precisar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 需要 xūyào
- Albanian
- kam nevojë
- Breton
- kaout ezhomm
- Catalan
- necessitar
- Corsican
- avè bisognu
- Czech
- potřebovat
- Danish
- have brug for
- Esperanto
- bezoni
- Estonian
- vajama
- Finnish
- tarvita
- Georgian
- საჭიროება sač̣iroeba
- Hebrew
- צריך tsaríkh
- Icelandic
- þurfa
- Kurdish
- pê vên
- Latvian
- vajadzēt
- Lithuanian
- reikėti
- Malagasy
- mila
- Norwegian
- trenge
- Romanian
- avea nevoie de
- Scottish Gaelic
- feum
- Serbo-Croatian
- trebati
- Slovak
- potrebovať
- Slovenian
- potrebovati
- Swahili
- -hitaji
- Walloon
- aveur mezåjhe
- Welsh
- angen
- Yiddish
- דאַרפֿן darfn
Noun something required
- Spanish
- necesidad
- French
- besoin
- German
- Bedarf
- Italian
- necessità
- Portuguese
- necessidade
- Turkish
- gereksinim
- Russian
- потре́бность potrébnostʹ
- Arabic
- حَاجَة ḥāja
- Chinese
- 需求 xūqiú
- Japanese
- 必要 hitsuyō
23 more languages
- Dutch
- behoefte
- Polish
- potrzeba
- Swedish
- behov
- Greek
- ανάγκη anágki
- Korean
- 필요 piryo
- Vietnamese
- nhu cầu
- Hungarian
- szükség
- Portuguese (PT)
- necessidade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 需求 xūqiú
- Albanian
- nevojë
- Catalan
- necessitat
- Czech
- potřeba
- Danish
- behov
- Esperanto
- bezono
- Finnish
- tarve
- Icelandic
- þörf
- Latvian
- vajadzība
- Romanian
- nevoie
- Scottish Gaelic
- feum
- Serbo-Croatian
- potreba
- Swahili
- uhitaji
- Welsh
- angen
- Yiddish
- באַדאַרף badarf
Verb to be obliged to
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. need, neod, nede, AS. neád, nȳd; akin to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nauðr, Sw. & Dan. nöd, Goth. nauþs.
1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
And the city had no need of the sun.— Rev. xxi. 23.
I have no need to beg.— William Shakespeare
Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy.— Taylor, Jeremy
2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Geoffrey Chaucer
Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.— William Shakespeare
3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Situation of need; peril; danger. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Synonyms: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury. — Need, Necessity. Necessity is stronger than need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are frequently under the necessity of going without that of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering; needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.
Origin: See Need, noun Cf. AS. nȳdan to force, Goth. nauþjan.
To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest.— John Milton
☞ With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change of termination in the third person singular of the present tense. “And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.” Anacharsis (Trans. ).
To be wanted; to be necessary. Geoffrey Chaucer
When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs.— John Locke
Of necessity. See Needs. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54