The Meaning of need

• (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
• (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
• (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
• (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
• (v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
• (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

Synonyms

demand , want , motivation , motive , indigence , penury , pauperism , pauperization , necessitate , ask , postulate , require , take , involve , call for , demand , want , require

Antonyms

obviate

Homophones

knead , kneed , nied

Rhymes

accede , agreed , aidid , airspeed , alwaleed , aniseed , appleseed , aristede , aristide , bead , bede , beede , bleed , brede , breed , cede , centipede , concede , cottonseed , creed , decreed , dede , deed , degreed , disagreed , duckweed , ede , exceed , fede , feed , fireweed , flaxseed , frede , freed , freid , fried , friede , gaede , ganymede , gilead , glede , gleed , greed , guaranteed , hamid , heed , impede , inbreed , indeed , intercede , keyed , knead , kneed , laclede , lead , leed , linseed , lipide , mead , meade , milkweed , misdeed , mislead , misread , nied , nosebleed , oilseed , peed , pitied , plead , pokeweed , precede , proceed , proofread , prophesied , ragweed , rapeseed , rasheed , rashid , read , recede , reed , reid , reread , reseed , ried , riede , schmead , screed , seaweed , secede , seed , shaheed , siegfried , sinead , skied , smead , snead , sneed , speed , stampede , steed , streed , succeed , swede , teide , thede , thiede , tiede , treed , tweed , vahid , wahid , waleed , walid , weed , wied , wrede