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need
  1. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
  2. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. demand, requirement, urgency, necessity, use, wish, call, desire, hunger, imperative, longing, requisite, urge, yearning, covetousness, craving, eagerness, exigency, fervour, fervor, hankering, lust, market, occasion, pining, predilection, proclivity, propensity, thirst, absence, appetite, aspiration, cry out, dearth, deficit, desideratum, dream, lustfulness, needfulness, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, exigence, inclination, necessitude, passion, support, ambition, drive, drought … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “There was a need for a change after having the same administration in office for several years.”
      “He had a need to apologize for his wrongdoings.”
      “You were always there for the children in their hour of need.”
needful
  1. (India, chiefly archaic in other dialects) Anything necessary or requisite.
  2. Ready money; wherewithal.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. essential, requirement, need, requisite, necessity, condition, must, demand, necessary, must-have, sine qua non, prerequisite, precondition, fundamental, stipulation, qualification, essentiality, imperative, vital part, exigency, part and parcel, necessary item, essential item, essential requirement, specification, desideratum, obligation, imposition, duty, basic, essence, indispensable, commitment, devoir, charge, want, vital, indispensable thing, lifeblood, indispensable item, life or death, necessary thing, not to be missed, proviso, provision, terms, contingency, postulate, arrangement, exception … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The prevailing opinion is that special training is a needful for a career in either line of endeavor.”
      “The messengers will come with you if you have the needful for the ceremony.”
needment
  1. (archaic) Something needed or wanted.
  2. (plural) outfit; necessary luggage
needfulness
  1. The property of being needful or necessary.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lack, want, need, absence, deficiency, dearth, shortage, scarcity, deprivation, insufficiency, inadequacy, unavailability, omission, default, privation, drought, non-existence, void, nonexistence, defect, scarceness, shortfall, deficit, exclusion, paucity, shortness, famine, poverty, undersupply, scantiness, decrease, inexistence, sparsity, insufficience, scantness, skimpiness, loss, reduction, exiguity, abridgement, crunch, abridgment, pinch, drouth, inadequateness, exiguousness, curtailment, depletion, withdrawal, destitution … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The argument should be about the needfulness and the efficacy of the specific reforms that the government is carrying out.”
      “It is something that exists apart from our desires and apart from our needfulness.”
      “In their third encounter, Sarah seeks out Eddie at the bus station cafe and wordlessly communicates her needfulness.”
needlessness
  1. the state or characteristic of being needless
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unnecessariness, uselessness, pointlessness, gratuitousness, senselessness, unhelpfulness, fruitlessness, impracticality, unnecessity, futility, worthlessness, superfluousness, unwarrantedness, wantonness, redundancy, meaninglessness, vanity, hopelessness, purposelessness, aimlessness, inanity, stupidity, emptiness, ineffectiveness, hollowness, ineffectuality, idleness, bootlessness, frivolousness, unprofitableness, vainness, unproductiveness, unavailingness, valuelessness, insignificance, barrenness, abortiveness, inefficiency, incompetence, unprofitability, triviality, profitlessness, unimportance, unsuccessfulness, unsubstantiality, unfruitfulness, inadequacy, sterility, ineffectualness, banality … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The needlessness of the extravagant decorations at the party was evident, as they served no purpose other than to impress.”
      “And as Ebraun's buddies probably shared his views on the needlessness of her calling, she was going to feel very out of place.”
      “The better it is, the more it reminds me of all that I said above, and the needlessness of it, which invariably fouls my mood for the morning.”
needyhood
  1. Alternative form of needihood
neediness
  1. The characteristic of being needy.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. destitution, want, poverty, penury, impoverishment, need, privation, indigence, pauperism, impecuniousness, beggary, impecuniosity, destituteness, pennilessness, poorness, penuriousness, deprivation, hardship, distress, insolvency, lack, necessity, scarcity, bankruptcy, deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, shortage, paucity, famine, meagerness, debt, difficulty, starvation, barrenness, depletion, dearth, necessitousness, deficit, straits, underdevelopment, abjection, aridity, emptiness, exiguity, pinch, pass, reduction, vacancy, pauperdom … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The abuse of power is rooted in the abusive family member's extreme emotional deprivation and neediness.”
      “That reflects their psychological neediness, rather than a criminogenic behavioural pattern.”
      “The latter may also attach to his petition a statement from any competent authority attesting his neediness.”
needling
  1. A needy person.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scorn, mockery, derision, ridicule, sneering, scoffing, disparagement, teasing, jeering, sarcasm, disdain, taunting, jibing, ragging, raillery, dig, jeer, taunt, sneer, chaffing, banter, kidding, contumely, ribbing, gibe, jab, slam, sneers, taunts, chaff, goofing, lampoon, razzing, persiflage, sardonicism, slight, swipe, mimicry, roast, jibes, leer, twitting, derisiveness, put down, winding up, parting shot, taking the mickey, pulling someone's chain, contempt, caricature … more
neede
  1. Archaic spelling of need.
needles
  1. plural of needle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spikes, spines, barbs, prickles, probes, stickers, pointers, thorns, spurs, bristles, quills, spicules, points, spicula, tines, prongs, spinules, spiculas, hackles, rachises, virgulas, rays, tips, projection, hooks, jags, teeth, snags, spires, pricks, apices, cusps, pricklers, nibs, aciculae, pikes, mucros, horn, head, awns, bills, tusks, antlers, acuminations, beaks, briers, peaks, stilettos, noses, extremities … more
needihood
  1. Neediness.
needs
  1. plural of need
  2. Synonyms:
      3. wants, desires, wishes, requirements, requests, exigence, demand, requirement, necessity, need, want, exigency, demands, exigencies, scarceness, use, covetousness, proclivities, yearnings, droughts, ambition, exigences, lust, dearths, desiderata, passion, requisites, deficits, scantiness, longings, hunger, lustfulness, necessitudes, markets, propensity, fervor, drives, aspiration, occasions, fervour, thirsts, support, urges, pinings, needfulness, absence, scarcity, eagerness, dreams … more
needing
  1. A need.
needlessnesses
  1. plural of needlessness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unnecessariness, uselessness, pointlessness, gratuitousness, senselessness, unhelpfulness, fruitlessness, impracticality, unnecessities, worthlessness, futility, redundancy, superfluousness, unwarrantedness, wantonness, extraneity, insignificance, dispensableness, hopelessness, purposelessness, stupidity, meaninglessness, aimlessness, inanity, vanities … more
needfulnesses
  1. plural of needfulness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lacks, wants, needs, absences, deficiencies, dearths, unavailabilities, deprivations, omissions, defaults, privations, shortages, scarcities, insufficiencies, droughts, inadequacies, non-existence, voids, nonexistences, defects, exclusions, poverties, famines, inexistences, scarceness, deficits, depletions, paucities, shortnesses, shortfalls, decreases, reductions, losses, withdrawals, sparsities, scantinesses, insufficience, destitutions, scantness, exiguities, removals, inadequatenesses, abridgements, exigencies, drouths, pinches, skimpiness, abridgments, crunches, curtailments … more
needinesses
  1. plural of neediness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. destitution, want, poverty, penuries, impoverishment, needs, privation, indigence, pauperism, impecuniousness, beggaries, impecuniosity, destituteness, pennilessness, poorness, penuriousness, deprivation, hardship, distress, insolvency, lacks, necessity, scarcity, bankruptcies, deficiency, insufficiencies, inadequacy, shortage, paucity, famine, meagerness, debts, difficulty, starvation, barrenness, depletions, dearths, necessitousness, deficits, underdevelopment, abjections, aridities, emptiness, exiguity, pinches, passes, reduction, vacancy, pauperdom, ruin … more
needlings
  1. plural of needling
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scorn, mockery, derision, ridicule, sneerings, scoffings, disparagement, teasing, jeerings, sarcasm, disdain, tauntings, raggings, raillery, digs, jeers, taunts, sneers, chaffings, banter, kiddings, contumely, ribbing, gibes, jabs, slam, chaff, lampoons, persiflage, sardonicism, slights, swipe, mimicry, roasts, leers, twittings, derisiveness, put downs, parting shots, travesties, burlesque, razz, foolery, rallies, laughter, jokings, irony, badinage, kidology, comebacks … more
needments
  1. plural of needment
needings
  1. plural of needing
needfuls
  1. plural of needful
  2. Synonyms:
      3. essentials, requirements, needs, requisites, necessity, conditions, musts, demand, necessaries, must-haves, sine qua nons, prerequisites, preconditions, fundamentals, stipulations, qualifications, imperative, part and parcel, exigencies, essentiality, specifications, imposition, desiderata, basics, essence, obligations, devoirs, lifeblood, charge, want, commitment, duty, exception, rules, exemption, provisos, postulates, catch, arrangements, codicils, small print, fine print, kickers, modification, provisions, contingency, articles, criteria, clauses, necessary conditions … more
needes
  1. plural of neede
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