ALL meanings of need
need
N n - noun need Require (something) because it is essential or very important. 1
- transitive verb need require 1
- transitive verb need lack, want 1
- verbal expression need find necessary 1
- auxiliary verb need must 1
- verbal expression need be obliged 1
- abbreviation NEED necessity 1
- noun need lack 1
- noun need poverty 1
- noun need difficulty 1
- noun plural need requirements 1
- transitive verb need love, desire 1
- noun need a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there. 1
- noun need a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary: to fulfill the needs of the assignment. 1
- noun need urgent want, as of something requisite: He has no need of your charity. 1
- noun need necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case: There is no need to worry. 1
- noun need a situation or time of difficulty; exigency: to help a friend in need; to be a friend in need. 1
- noun need a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership. 1
- noun need destitution; extreme poverty: The family's need is acute. 1
- verb with object need to have need of; require: to need money. 1
- verb without object need to be under an obligation (used as an auxiliary, typically in an interrogative or in a negative statement, and followed by infinitive, in certain cases without to; in the 3d person singular the form is need, not needs): He need not go. 1
- verb without object need to be in need or want. 1
- verb without object need to be necessary: There needs no apology. 1
- idioms need if need be, should the necessity arise: If need be, I can type the letters myself. 1
- verb need If you need something, or need to do something, you cannot successfully achieve what you want or live properly without it. 0
- verb need Need is also a noun. 0
- verb need If an object or place needs something doing to it, that action should be done to improve the object or place. If a task needs doing, it should be done to improve a particular situation. 0
- singular noun need If there is a need for something, that thing would improve a situation or something cannot happen without it. 0
- modal verb need If you say that someone needn't do something, you are telling them not to do it, or advising or suggesting that they should not do it. 0
- modal verb need Need is also a verb. 0
- modal verb need If you tell someone that they needn't do something, or that something needn't happen, you are telling them that that thing is not necessary, in order to make them feel better. 0
- modal verb need You use needn't when you are giving someone permission not to do something. 0
- modal verb need If something need not be true, it is not necessarily true or not always true. 0
- modal verb need If someone needn't have done something, it was not necessary or useful for them to do it, although they did it. 0
- modal verb need If someone didn't need to do something, they needn't have done it. 0
- modal verb need You use need in expressions such as I need hardly say and I needn't add to emphasize that the person you are talking to already knows what you are going to say. 0
- modal verb need You can use need in expressions such as 'Need I say more' and 'Need I go on' when you want to avoid stating an obvious consequence of something you have just said. 0
- verb need to be in want of 0
- verb need to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged 0
- verb need used as an auxiliary in negative and interrogative sentences to express necessity or obligation, and does not add -s when used with he, she, it, and singular nouns 0
- verb need to be essential or necessary to 0
- noun need the fact or an instance of feeling the lack of something 0
- noun need a requirement 0
- noun need necessity or obligation resulting from some situation 0
- noun need distress or extremity 0
- noun need extreme poverty or destitution; penury 0
- noun need necessity or obligation created by some situation 0
- noun need a lack of something useful, required, or desired 0
- noun need something useful, required, or desired that is lacking; want; requirement 0
- noun need a condition in which there is a deficiency of something, or one requiring relief or supply 0