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need

verb

1 the house still needs a lot of work | do you need money?:

require, be in need of, stand in need of, have need of, want, be in want of, be crying out for, be desperate for;

demand, call for, necessitate, entail, involve;

have occasion for/to;

lack, be without, be short of, miss.

2 you needn't come if you don't want to:

have to, be under an obligation to, be obliged to, be compelled to, be under a compulsion to;

archaic have need to.

3 she needed him so much that it seemed as if her entire heart and soul were crying out to him:

yearn for, pine for, long for, crave for, desire, miss.

noun

1 there's no need to apologize | the need to safeguard the environment:

necessity, obligation, requirement, call, demand;

rare exigency.

2 the basic human needs of food and shelter:

requirement, essential, necessity, want, requisite, prerequisite, wish, demand;

Latin desideratum.

3 a family whose need was particularly pressing:

neediness, want, poverty, deprivation, privation, hardship, penury, destitution, indigence, impecuniousness.

4 please don't abandon me in my hour of need:

difficulty, trouble, distress;

crisis, emergency, urgency, extremity, dire/desperate straits;

rare exigency.

□ in need

the organization provides food and clothing to people in need:

needy, requiring help, deprived, disadvantaged, underprivileged, in want, poor, badly off, unable to make ends meet, in reduced/straitened circumstances, unable to keep the wolf from the door, impoverished, poverty-stricken, destitute, penurious, impecunious, indigent;

British on the breadline;

rare necessitous.