need

Examples

• All

• If the project design happens to fit the needs of your students, you are in luck.

  Academic text (2011)

• And they felt that there was a need for a new CEO.

• Indeed, there was a need to get people to use them.

• The number one need of most men is respect.

• My question is, why the need for a national system?

• We have different wants, needs and likes in products.

• Most respondents also received assistance with a range of needs, including financial, emotional, and medical support.

  Academic text (2011)

• A preschool education of good quality will meet these needs of children and support their development.

  Academic text (2011)

• This 800-megawatt plant generates enough electricity... to meet the needs of a city of three-quarters of a million people.

  The China Syndrome (1979)

• The community organized a fundraiser to address the growing need for affordable housing.

Synonyms

R

requirement

vsneed

552 2.0

Something you need for a particular purpose or situation

is the general sense of being required rather than a specific demand

N

necessity

vsneed

227 2.0

A thing you need to live, like food or water

is a specific instance or situation where something is required

D

demand

vsneed

201 2.3

A need for something that must be supplied or met

is a neutral requirement without the implied pressure or urgency

M

must

vsneed

62 1.0

Something you need and cannot do without

is a broader, less absolute notion of being required

E

essential

vsneed

49 2.4

Things you need for a purpose, like food or water

is a less strong requirement that can be simply needed rather than absolute

E

essential condition

vsneed

1 3.5

Something that must be true or happen first for another thing to happen

is the general condition of being required, not only a prior condition

Antonyms

L

luxury

369 4.2

A great comfort from expensive things or experiences that people do not need

Idioms

I

if need be

33 3.9

When it is necessary to do something

N

to need some poon

• Offensive

1 9.9

An informal way to say you want to have sex, often used by men

Compounds

N

need-to-know

• Formal

26 7.7

Information given only to people who must have it for their work

N

need-to-know basis

• Formal

15 5.5

A rule that gives information only to people who need it for their work

T

times of need

5 3.2

Periods when people are in trouble and others must help them

G

growing need

4 2.7

An increasing demand for something

How Necessary

imperative

50 5.8

necessity

227 2.0

need

∞ 1.0

requirement

552 2.0

Surface Forms

Etymology