need
Meaning
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- A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Synonyms
require
destitution
be needy
live in misery
be in need
be in need of
be necessary
suffer want
live in poverty
run out of
beg for
be good
be short
in need of
want to
wish for
to depend on
should be
be compelled
be a necessity
cannot do without
be in need/want
have a need of
felt need
be imperatively necessary
be needful
have need of
have occasion for
have urgent business
be about to
be obliged
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/niːd/
Etymology
From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms: * Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“death”). * Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *neud, from Proto-Germanic *neudaz (“wish, urge, desire, longing”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”).
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