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need

anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"

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"

have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"

Synonyms:

• 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