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Verb
▲
Present participle for to require a tangible object or objects
requiring
desiring
lacking
wanting
necessitating
feeling a dearth of
feeling the necessity for
hankering for
having need for
having occasion for
having to have
having use for
hungering for
thirsting for
having need of
having occasion to
standing in need of
yenning for
“I need some cutlery to eat my dinner with.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to emotionally yearn for
craving
coveting
desiring
craving for
longing for
lusting after
lusting for
missing
pining for
wishing for
yearning for
aching for
fancying
hungering after
hungering for
“It's been so long since I've had ice-cream and I need it now!”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to require the intervention of someone or something
expecting
asking
calling for
challenging
commanding
depending on
calling out for
claiming
clamoring for
crying for
crying out for
demanding
enjoining
exacting
insisting on
involving
pressing
stipulating
begging for
entailing
taking
warranting
bearing
postulating
“We will need strong leaders to solve a problem of this magnitude.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for expressing a necessity or obligation for an outcome
having to
musting
having need to
“All you need do as of now is to be patient.”
Adjective
▲
Having a need or requirement for something
requiring
necessitating
lacking
needful
without
calling for
Adjective
▲
Lacking or without a given thing, element or quality
devoid
bereft
lacking
without
void
destitute
wanting
barren
bankrupt
sans
minus
bare
deficient
denuded
destitute of
bereft of
deficient in
denuded of
deprived of
empty of
free from
bare of
lacking in
depleted of
free of
vacant of
bankrupt of
drained of
void of
wanting in
barren of
in need of
unprovided with
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Eagerly wishing or wanting of something or someone
desiring
keen
yearning
eager
longing
desirous
avid
hungry
craving
voracious
thirsty
greedy
athirst
enthusiastic
raring
impatient
excited
hankering
agog
antsy
solicitous
ardent
anxious
wild
crazy
ambitious
pumped
hot
hopeful
enthused
more ❯
Preposition
▲
(of an object) Not having the use or benefit of
without
devoid of
minus
lacking
sans
requiring
bereft of
deprived of
destitute of
short of
wanting for
absent
excluding
wanting
less
in need of
shorn of
starved of
with no
in default of
in the absence of
w/o
not having
excepting
notwithstanding
failing
not including
if not
exclusive of
with the exception of
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