Need

Noun

 * 1)  A requirement for something.
 * There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.
 * She grew irritated with his constant need for attention.
 * Our needs are not being met.
 * 1) Something required.
 * I've always tried to have few needs beyond food, clothing and shelter.

Derived terms

 * if need be
 * in need, in need of; a friend in need is a friend indeed
 * need-based


 * needful, needfully, needfulness
 * needless, needlessly, needlessness
 * needy, needily, neediness

Verb

 * 1)  To be necessary (to someone).
 * , II.ix:
 * More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me [...].
 * 1)  To have an absolute requirement for.
 * Living things need water to survive.
 * 1)  To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
 * After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
 * 1)  To be obliged or required (to do something).
 * You need not go if you don't want to.

Derived terms

 * needed, unneeded
 * need-to-know basis

Thesaurus
absence, ardor, arrearage, ask, bare cupboard, bare necessities, bare subsistence, basic, be forced, be hurting for, be in for, be in want, be indicated, be necessary, be obliged, be pinched, be poor, beggarliness, beggary, break, call, call for, cannot do otherwise, cannot help but, charge, claim, clamor for, commitment, committal, concupiscence, constraint, covet, crave, cry for, cry out for, curiosity, dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, demand, demand for, deprivation, desideration, desideratum, desire, destitution, devoir, difficulty, discontinuity, distress, drive, drought, duty, eagerness, emergency, empty purse, essential, essentials, exact, exaction, exigency, extremity, famine, fancy, fantasy, fundamental, gap, go on welfare, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, hanker, have, have got to, have need to, have occasion for, have to, hiatus, homelessness, hope, horme, hunger, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, indispensable, insufficiency, intellectual curiosity, interval, lack, lacuna, libido, long, lust for learning, mendicancy, mind, miss, missing link, moneylessness, must, must item, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessitousness, necessity, need for, need to, needfulness, neediness, needs must, occasion, omission, ought, outage, passion, paucity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, pine, pleasure, pleasure principle, poorness, poverty, prerequire, prerequirement, prerequisite, privation, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, right, run short of, scarcity, sexual desire, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, should, sine qua non, starvation, starve, stress, take doing, the necessary, the needful, thirst, thirst for knowledge, trouble, ullage, urge, use, want, want doing, wantage, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, yearn

Etymology 1
From ned:.

Etymology 2
From neodian:.

Noun

 * Arabic: حاجة, ضرورة
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 需求
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bezono
 * Filipino: pangangailangan
 * Finnish:
 * French:, nécessité
 * German:, ,
 * Hindi: ज़रूरत
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: bezono
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 必要
 * Korean: 필요


 * Latin:, ,
 * Lojban:
 * Macedonian:, , зорт
 * Old French:
 * Persian: ضرورت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , nevoie
 * Romansch: basegn
 * Russian:, потребность, необходимость
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అవసరము
 * Turkish:, ihtiyaç, eksik, gereklilik
 * Ukrainian: нужда, потреба, необхідність
 * Urdu: ضرورت

Verb

 * Arabic: احتاج
 * Armenian: կարիք ունենալ
 * Catalan: necessitar, requerir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: necesitar, requirir, precisar
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: मुहताज होना, (pattern: dative + verb + चाहीए (cāhiē))
 * Ido: bezonar
 * Interlingua: besoniar
 * Italian: aver bisogno di
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:, 요하다


 * Latin:, requiro
 * Lojban:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: trebui, a avea nevoie de
 * Romansch: avair basegn da
 * Russian:, быть нужным , требоваться
 * Serbo-Croatian: trebati
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ต้องการ
 * Turkish: gereksinmek, gereksinim duymak, gereksinimi olmak, ihtiyaç duymak, ihtiyacı olmak, lazım olmak,
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: احتاج
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: moeten hebben
 * German:
 * Hindi: ज़रूरत होना


 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Lojban:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Catalan: haver de, caldre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: être obligé de
 * German: ,


 * Italian: essere obbligato a
 * Japanese: してはいけない
 * Latin: obligor
 * Lojban:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: trebui
 * Turkish: zorunda olmak, lazım olmak,, -meli, -malı


 * : pangangailangan
 * : cần

Anagrams

 * dene
 * Eden

Noun
need


 * 1) need

Derived terms

 * needsaaklik adj