need
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(verb) have or feel a need for: "always wanting for friends and money" |
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(verb) be in want of |
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Related Words: desire, want |
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(noun) anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" |
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Synonyms: want |
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Related Words: essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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(noun) a condition requiring relief; "she satified his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" |
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Synonyms: demand |
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Related Words: condition, deficiency, lack, necessity, status, want |
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(verb) have need of: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" |
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Synonyms: require, want |
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Related Words: be, cry |
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(noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" |
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Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, penury |
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Related Words: impoverishment, poorness, poverty |
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(noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" |
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Synonyms: motivation, motive |
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Related Words: ethical motive, ethics, impulse, irrational motive, life, mental energy, morality, morals, psychic energy, psychological feature, rational motive, urge |
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(verb) require as useful, just, or proper; "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 demands a spectacular dessert" |
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Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, require, take |
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Related Words: call for, claim, cost, cry for, cry out for, draw, exact, imply, involve, take |
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(verb) be obliged, required, or forced to |
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Synonyms: have, have got, must |
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(verb) be logically necessary |
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Synonyms: must, ought, should |
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