need

Noun
  1. A condition requiring relief (synset 114472592)
    "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
    is a type of: condition, status - a state at a particular time
    subtypes:
    • deficiency, lack, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    • necessity - the condition of being essential or indispensable
    same as: demand
  2. Anything that is necessary but lacking (synset 109390888)
    "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
    is a type of: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite - anything indispensable
    same as: want
  3. 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 (synset 100023953)
    "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
    is a type of: psychological feature - a feature of the mental life of a living organism
    subtypes:
    same as: motivation, motive
  4. A state of extreme poverty or destitution (synset 114517300)
    "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
    is a type of: impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
    subtypes: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity - the state of being a beggar or mendicant
    same as: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury
Verb
  1. Require as useful, just, or proper (synset 202634015)
    "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"
    subtypes:
    • claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
    • govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
    • draw - require a specified depth for floating
    • cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
    • cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately
    • compel - necessitate or exact
    same as: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take
    verb group: claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
  2. Have need of (synset 201191258)
    "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
    is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
    subtypes: cry - demand immediate action
    same as: require, want
  3. Have or feel a need for (synset 201191646)
    "always needing friends and money"

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