Dictionary and Thesaurus

Definition 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 of Need

• Demand
• Want
• Motivation
• Motive
• Indigence
• Penury
• Pauperism
• Pauperization
• Necessitate
• Ask
• Postulate
• Require
• Take
• Involve
• Call For
• Demand
• Want
• Require

Antonyms of Need

• Obviate

Homophones of Need

• Knead
• Kneed
• Nied