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Need Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Need? [n] 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" [n] anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" [n] 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" [n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [v] have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [v] have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money" [v] be in want of [v] 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 postulates a patient's consent" [v] be obliged, required, or forced to; "She has to get her driver's license" [v] be logically necessary Synonyms \| Synonyms for Need: ask \| beggary \| call for \| demand \| demand \| have \| have got \| indigence \| involve \| motivation \| motive \| must \| necessitate \| ought \| pauperism \| pauperization \| penury \| postulate \| require \| require \| should \| take \| want \| want Related Terms \| Find terms related to Need: absence \| ardor \| arrearage \| ask \| bare cupboard \| bare necessities \| bare subsistence \| basic \| be forced \| be hurting for \| be in for \| be in want \| be indicated \| be necessary \| be obliged \| be pinched \| be poor \| beggarliness \| beggary \| break \| call \| call for \| cannot do otherwise \| cannot help but \| charge \| claim \| clamor for \| commitment \| committal \| concupiscence \| constraint \| covet \| crave \| cry for \| cry out for \| curiosity \| dearth \| defalcation \| defect \| defectiveness \| deficiency \| deficit \| demand \| demand for \| deprivation \| desideration \| desideratum \| desire \| destitution \| devoir \| difficulty \| discontinuity \| distress \| drive \| drought \| duty \| eagerness \| emergency \| empty purse \| essential \| essentials \| exact \| exaction \| exigency \| extremity \| famine \| fancy \| fantasy \| fundamental \| gap \| go on welfare \| grinding poverty \| gripe \| hand-to-mouth existence \| hanker \| have \| have got to \| have need to \| have occasion for \| have to \| hiatus \| homelessness \| hope \| horme \| hunger \| impecuniousness \| imperfection \| impoverishment \| incompleteness \| indigence \| indispensable \| insufficiency \| intellectual curiosity \| interval \| lack \| lacuna \| libido \| long \| lust for learning \| mendicancy \| mind \| miss \| missing link \| moneylessness \| must \| must item \| necessaries \| necessary \| necessities \| necessitousness \| necessity \| need for \| need to \| needfulness \| neediness \| needs must \| occasion \| omission \| ought \| outage \| passion \| paucity \| pauperism \| pauperization \| penury \| pinch \| pine \| pleasure \| pleasure principle \| poorness \| poverty \| prerequire \| prerequirement \| prerequisite \| privation \| require \| requirement \| requisite \| requisition \| right \| run short of \| scarcity \| sexual desire \| shortage \| shortcoming \| shortfall \| should \| sine qua non \| starvation \| starve \| stress \| take doing \| the necessary \| the needful \| thirst \| thirst for knowledge \| trouble \| ullage \| urge \| use \| want \| want doing \| wantage \| wanting \| will \| will and pleasure \| wish \| wish fulfillment \| yearn See Also \| be \| condition \| cost \| cry \| cry for \| cry out for \| deficiency \| desire \| draw \| essential \| ethical motive \| ethics \| govern \| imply \| impoverishment \| impulse \| irrational motive \| lack \| life \| mental energy \| morality \| morals \| necessary \| necessity \| necessity \| poorness \| poverty \| psychic energy \| psychological feature \| rational motive \| requirement \| requisite \| status \| urge \| want \| want Need In Webster's Dictionary \Need\, n. [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. ne['a]d, n[=y]d; akin to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. n["o]d, Goth. naups.] 1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. And the city had no need of the sun. --Rev. xxi. 23. I have no need to beg. --Shak. Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. --Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. --Shak. 3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury. Usage: {Need}, {Necessity}. Necessity is stronger than need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are frequently under the necessity of going without that of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering; needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief. \Need\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Needed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Needing}.] [See {Need}, n. Cf. AS. n?dan to force, Goth. nau?jan.] To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. --Milton. Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change of termination in the third person singular of the present tense. ``And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.'' --Anacharsis (Trans. ). \Need\, v. i. To be wanted; to be necessary. --Chaucer. When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. --Locke. \Need\, adv. Of necessity. See {Needs}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Need Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Need?

[n] 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"
[n] anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
[n] 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"
[n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
[v] have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
[v] have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"
[v] be in want of
[v] 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 postulates a patient's consent"
[v] be obliged, required, or forced to; "She has to get her driver's license"
[v] be logically necessary

Need In Webster's Dictionary

\Need\, n. [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. ne['a]d, n[=y]d; akin
to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. n["o]d,
Goth. naups.]
1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion
   for something; necessity; urgent want.

         And the city had no need of the sun.  --Rev. xxi.
                                               23.

         I have no need to beg.                --Shak.

         Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. --Jer.
                                               Taylor.

2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence;
   destitution. --Chaucer.

         Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression
         starveth in thine eyes.               --Shak.

3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done;
   (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

4. Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Syn: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity;
     distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury.

Usage: {Need}, {Necessity}. Necessity is stronger than need;
       it places us under positive compulsion. We are
       frequently under the necessity of going without that
       of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also
       with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous
       circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering;
       needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.


\Need\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Needed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Needing}.] [See {Need}, n. Cf. AS. n?dan to force, Goth.
nau?jan.]
To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to
require, as supply or relief.

      Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and
      less need rest.                          --Milton.

Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary,
      generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement
      or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change
      of termination in the third person singular of the
      present tense. ``And the lender need not fear he shall
      be injured.'' --Anacharsis (Trans. ).


\Need\, v. i.
To be wanted; to be necessary. --Chaucer.

      When we have done it, we have done all that is in our
      power, and all that needs.               --Locke.


\Need\, adv.
Of necessity. See {Needs}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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