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need<br />

v. 1 require, demand, want, be in want of, call for, have need<br />

of or for; lack, miss, have occasion for: This room needs a<br />

coat of paint. Although she may want more money, she doesn't<br />

need it. Do you need anything to make you more comfortable?<br />

--n. 2 necessity, requirement; call, demand, constraint:<br />

There's no need to shout - I can hear you. There is a need to<br />

keep this matter confidential. This facility will meet our<br />

electricity needs for decades. 3 essential, necessary,<br />

requisite, prerequisite, necessity, basic, fundamental, sine qua<br />

non, necessary, desideratum: I am perfectly capable of taking<br />

care of my family's needs. 4 distress, difficulty, trouble,<br />

(dire or desperate) straits, stress, emergency, exigency,<br />

extremity, neediness, needfulness; poverty, penury,<br />

impecuniousness, destitution, privation, deprivation, indigence,<br />

beggary: She was very supportive in his hour of need. The need<br />

of the people in that district is heart-rending. 5 want, lack,<br />

dearth, shortage, paucity, scarcity, insufficiency, desideratum:<br />

The need for medical supplies was most sharply felt in areas<br />

that were already ravaged by famine.<br />

needless adj. 1 unnecessary, non-essential, unessential, unneeded,<br />

unwanted, useless, uncalled-for, gratuitous, superfluous,<br />

redundant, excess, excessive, tautological, dispensable,<br />

expendable, supererogatory, de trop, pleonastic: He went to a<br />

lot of needless trouble to change the tyre. It is needless to<br />

raise further questions. 2 needless to say. naturally, (as a<br />

matter) of course, obviously, it goes without saying: Needless<br />

to say, he will have to resign when this comes to light.<br />

needy adj. poor, indigent, poverty-stricken, destitute, impoverished,<br />

penniless, impecunious, necessitous, underprivileged, deprived,<br />

disadvantaged, below the poverty level, in dire straits, in or<br />

on the way to the poorhouse, in reduced circumstances,<br />

down-and-out, insolvent, Colloq on one's uppers, dead or flat or<br />

stony-broke, hard up, strapped, pinched, on the breadline, up<br />

against it, Brit on the dole, US dead broke, on welfare, on<br />

relief: It is not enough to look after needy families only at<br />

Christmas time.<br />

negative adj. 1 contradictory, anti, contrary, dissenting, dissentious,<br />

disputing, disputatious, argumentative, adversarial,

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