| VERB | stative | need, necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, call for, demand | require as useful, just, or proper |
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| consumption | need, want, require | have need of | |
| consumption | need | have or feel a need for | |
| NOUN | state | need, demand | a condition requiring relief |
| object | need, want | anything that is necessary but lacking | |
| Tops | need, motivation, motive | the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal | |
| state | need, indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization | a state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution |
| Sounds | niy'd | |
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| Rhymes | able-bodied ... worried: 105 rhymes with iyd... | |
| Meaning | A condition requiring relief. | |
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| Synonym | demand | |
| Narrower | lack, deficiency, want | The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
| necessity | The condition of being essential or indispensable | |
| Broader | condition, status | A state at a particular time |
| Spanish | necesidades, necesidad | |
| Catalan | necessitat | |
| Verbs | need | have need of |
| Meaning | Anything that is necessary but lacking. | |
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| Example | "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs" | |
| Synonym | want | |
| Broader | necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary | Anything indispensable / indispensable |
| Spanish | necesidad | |
| Catalan | necessitat | |
| Verbs | need | require as useful, just, or proper |
| Meaning | The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior. | |
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| Synonyms | motivation, motive | |
| Narrower | ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality | motivation based on ideas of right and wrong |
| irrational motive | A motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic | |
| life | A motive for living | |
| psychic energy, mental energy | An actuating force or factor | |
| rational motive | A motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument | |
| urge, impulse | An instinctive motive | |
| Broader | psychological feature | A feature of the mental life of a living organism |
| Spanish | motivación, motivo, necesidad | |
| Catalan | motiu, motivació, necessitat | |
| Meaning | A state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution. | |
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| Example | "a general state of need exists among the homeless" | |
| Synonyms | indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization | |
| Narrower | beggary, mendicancy, mendicity | The state of being a beggar or mendicant |
| Broader | poverty, poorness, impoverishment | The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
| Spanish | indigencia, miseria, necesidad, pauperismo, penuria, pobreza extrema | |
| Catalan | extrema pobresa, indigència, misèria, necessitat, pauperisme, penúria | |
| Adjectives | needy | poor enough to need help from others |
| Meaning | require as useful, just, or proper. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Model | They need him to write the letter | |
| Synonyms | necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, call for, demand | |
| Narrower | claim, take, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
| compel | Necessitate or exact | |
| cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice | |
| cry out for, cry for | Need badly or desperately | |
| draw | require a specified depth for floating | |
| govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | |
| Opposite | obviate, rid of, eliminate | Do away with |
| Similar to | claim, take, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
| Spanish | demandar, exigir, implicar, involucrar, necesitar, pedir, precisar, preguntar, reclamar, requerir, solicitar | |
| Catalan | exigir, implicar, involucrar, necessitar, precisar, preguntar, reclamar, requerir | |
| Nouns | need | anything that is necessary but lacking |
| Meaning | Have need of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They need more bread; They need him to write the letter; They need to move | |
| Synonyms | want, require | |
| Narrower | cry | demand immediate action |
| Broader | be | Have the quality of being |
| Spanish | necesitar, precisar, querer, requerir | |
| Catalan | menester, necessitar, precisar, requerir, voler | |
| Nouns | need | a condition requiring relief |
| Meaning | Have or feel a need for. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "always needing friends and money" | |
| Spanish | necesitar, precisar, requerir | |
| Catalan | necessitar, precisar, requerir | |
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