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need
Overview of noun need
The noun need has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (56) need, demand -- (a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs")
2. (29) need, want -- (anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants")
3. (12) motivation, motive, need -- (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; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives")
4. (1) indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization -- (a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless")
Overview of verb need
The verb need has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (112) necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand -- (require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent")
2. (99) want, need, require -- (have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner")
3. (1) need -- (have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun need
4 senses of need
Sense 1
need, demand
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
need, want
=> necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
=> thing
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
motivation, motive, need
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
=> poverty, poorness, impoverishment
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun need
3 of 4 senses of need
Sense 1
need, demand
=> lack, deficiency, want
=> necessity
Sense 3
motivation, motive, need
=> life
=> rational motive
=> irrational motive
=> urge, impulse
=> ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
=> psychic energy, mental energy
Sense 4
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
=> beggary, mendicancy, mendicity
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun need
4 senses of need
Sense 1
need, demand
=> condition, status
Sense 2
need, want
=> necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
Sense 3
motivation, motive, need
=> psychological feature
Sense 4
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
=> poverty, poorness, impoverishment
Antonyms of noun need
Member Holonyms of noun need
Substance Holonyms of noun need
Part Holonyms of noun need
Member Meronyms of noun need
Substance Meronyms of noun need
Part Meronyms of noun need
Meronyms of noun need
Holonyms of noun need
Attributes of noun need
Derived Forms of noun need
3 of 4 senses of need
Sense 1
need, demand
RELATED TO>(verb) need#2
=> want, need, require
Sense 2
need, want
RELATED TO>(verb) need#1
=> necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
Sense 4
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
RELATED TO>(adj) needy#1
=> destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken
Domain of noun need
Domain Terms of noun need
Familiarity of noun need
need used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun need
4 senses of need
Sense 1
need, demand
> condition, status
=> anchorage
=> health
=> mode
=> niche, ecological niche
=> noise conditions
=> participation, involvement
=> prepossession
=> regularization, regularisation
=> saturation
=> silence
=> situation, position
=> ski conditions
=> nomination
=> standardization, standardisation
=> stigmatism
=> astigmatism, astigmia
=> way
=> circumstance
=> homelessness
=> reinstatement
=> place
=> celibacy
=> virginity
=> innocence
=> purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
=> guilt, guiltiness
=> encapsulation
=> polarization, polarisation
=> pathological state
=> disorder, upset
=> hyalinization, hyalinisation
=> vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation
=> protuberance
=> curvature
=> psychological state, mental state
=> difficulty
=> improvement, melioration
=> decline, declination
=> ennoblement
=> dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> comfort, comfortableness
=> discomfort, uncomfortableness
=> need, demand
=> fullness
=> emptiness
=> nakedness, nudity, nudeness
=> hairlessness, depilation
=> dishabille, deshabille
=> hopefulness
=> despair, desperation
=> purity, pureness
=> impurity, impureness
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> sanitary condition
=> tilth
=> orderliness, order
=> disorderliness, disorder
=> normality, normalcy
=> abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
=> lactosuria
=> environmental condition
=> climate, mood
=> atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
=> unsusceptibility, immunity
=> immunity, resistance
=> subservience
=> susceptibility, susceptibleness
=> wetness
=> dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
=> safety
=> danger
=> tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
=> atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia
=> laxness, laxity
=> repair
=> soundness
=> mutism, muteness
=> eye condition
=> unsoundness
=> impropriety
=> iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
=> light, illumination
=> malady
=> serration
=> absolution
=> automation
=> brutalization, brutalisation
=> condemnation
=> deification
=> diversification
=> exoneration
=> facilitation
=> frizz
=> fruition
=> hospitalization
=> identification
=> impaction
=> ionization, ionisation
=> irradiation
=> leakiness
=> lubrication
=> mechanization, mechanisation
=> motivation
=> mummification
=> preservation
=> prognathism
=> rustication
=> rustiness
=> scandalization, scandalisation
=> submission
=> urbanization, urbanisation
Sense 2
need, want
> necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
=> desideratum
=> must
=> need, want
Sense 3
motivation, motive, need
> psychological feature
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> motivation, motive, need
=> event
Sense 4
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
> poverty, poorness, impoverishment
=> privation, want, deprivation, neediness
=> destitution
=> indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization
=> impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness
Meronyms of noun need
4 senses of need
Holonyms of noun need
Grep of noun need
need
needer
neediness
needle
needle-bush
needle-wood
needle bearing
needle biopsy
needle blight
needle bush
needle cast
needle furze
needle palm
needle rush
needle spike rush
needle wood
needlebush
needlecraft
needlefish
needlenose pliers
needlepoint
needlepoint embroidery
needlewoman
needlewood
needlework
needleworker
needy
Antonyms of verb need
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb need
3 senses of need
Sense 1
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
Sense 2
want, need, require
=> be
Sense 3
need
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb need
2 of 3 senses of need
Sense 1
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
=> claim, take, exact
=> govern
=> draw
=> cost
=> cry out for, cry for
=> imply, involve
Sense 2
want, need, require
=> cry
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb need
3 senses of need
Sense 1
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
Sense 2
want, need, require
=> be
Sense 3
need
'Cause To' of verb need
Derived Forms of verb need
2 of 3 senses of need
Sense 1
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
RELATED TO>(noun) need#2
=> need, want
Sense 2
want, need, require
RELATED TO>(noun) need#1
=> need, demand
Domain of verb need
Domain Terms of verb need
Familiarity of verb need
need used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb need
3 senses of need
Sense 1
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
EX: They need him to write the letter
Sense 2
want, need, require
EX: They need more bread
EX: They need him to write the letter
EX: They need to move
Sense 3
need
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb need
1 of 3 senses of need
Sense 2
want, need, require
> be
=> look
=> suffer, hurt
=> be well
=> suffer
=> feel
=> stay, remain, rest
=> continue
=> sparkle, scintillate, coruscate
=> confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
=> rank
=> point
=> want, need, require
=> compact, pack
=> rest
=> cut
=> seethe, boil
=> mope, moon around, moon about
=> look, appear, seem
=> appear, seem
=> owe
=> belong
=> cover
=> represent
=> account
=> cut across
=> begin, start
=> begin
=> stand
=> specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate
=> go
=> make sense, add up
=> consist, comprise
=> prove, turn out, turn up
=> account for
=> remain
=> stand by, stick by, stick, adhere
=> loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
=> total, number, add up, come, amount
=> count, matter, weigh
=> rate
=> deserve, merit
=> buy
=> shine
=> fall
=> depend
=> underlie
=> stink
=> subtend, delimit
=> incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
=> contain, take, hold
=> cost, be
=> measure
=> hum, buzz, seethe
=> pass
=> abound
=> disagree, disaccord, discord
=> gape, yawn, yaw
=> tend, be given, lean, incline, run
=> run, go
=> figure, enter
=> press
=> rage
=> relate, interrelate
=> rut
=> stagnate
=> stagnate
=> come in handy
=> squat
=> hoodoo
=> impend
=> range, run
=> stay, stay on, continue, remain
=> sell
=> translate
=> head, head up
=> come in for
=> compare
=> fall, come
=> run into, encounter
=> gravitate
=> pay
=> diverge
=> shine
=> iridesce
=> lie
=> stand
=> hang
=> litter
=> suit
=> end, terminate
=> fit
=> lend
=> let go
=> belong
=> belong
=> wind, twist, curve
=> jumble, mingle
=> promise
=> accept, take
=> clean
=> draw
=> wash
=> balance
=> hail, come
=> act
=> test
=> seem
=> answer
=> beat
=> hold
=> contain
=> connect
=> sell
=> sell
=> kill
=> make
=> deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify
=> consist
=> work
=> lubricate
=> breathe
=> trim
=> swing
=> osculate
=> retard
=> transplant
=> cohere
=> object
=> stick
=> recognize
=> distribute
=> put out
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb need
Sense 1
necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
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Sense 2
want, need, require
=> be
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Sense 3
need
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Grep of verb need
need
needle
Grep of adj need
knock-kneed
needed
needful
needle-shaped
needled
needlelike
needless
needy
weak-kneed
Grep of adv need
needfully
needlessly
needs
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