needs

Meanings

Noun

• a condition requiring relief
• anything that is necessary but lacking
  • "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"
• 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
• a state of extreme poverty or destitution
• plural of need

Verb

• require as useful, just, or proper
• have need of
• have or feel a need for
• third-person singular simple present indicative of need

Adverb

• in such a manner as could not be otherwise
  • "we must needs by objective"

Adv

• Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.

Synonyms

ask, call for, demand, indigence, inevitably, involve, motivation, motive, necessarily, necessitate, need, of necessity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, postulate, require, take, want

Antonyms

obviate

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