Antonyms for needs
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : needz |
| Phonetic Transcription : nidz |
Definition of needs
Origin :- "of necessity, necessarily," in archaic constructions involving must (late 14c.) is from Old English nede, instrumental and genitive singular of nied (see need), used as an adverb reinforcing must, hence the genitive ending.
- noun want, requirement
- noun poverty
- noun emergency; pressing lack
- verb want something
- As if you could be trusted with anything again that needs a schoolboy's intelligence.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He needs a clerk for his law matters, and the Dean said he would speak of me to him.
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Somewhere there is a ship that needs it, or if not, the light does its duty.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- I am extremely affected on my mother's account—more, I must needs say, than on my own.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- I must needs try my new-fledged pinions in sonnet, elogy, and madrigal.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- He needs no nation, or government, or society, or companions before him or behind him.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Wherefore we must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience' sake.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- Indeed, what I have is not enough for my needs until the six weeks are over.
- Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
- The income of their uncle, the canon, was hardly sufficient for the family's needs.
- Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
- More than all this, the man in the Twentieth Century needs must be a man of character.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
Synonyms for needs
- be deficient
- be deprived
- be down and out
- be hard up
- be in need of
- be in want
- be inadequate
- be needy
- be poor
- be short
- be without
- call for
- charge
- claim
- commitment
- committal
- compulsion
- covet
- crave
- deficiency
- demand
- deprivation
- desideratum
- desire
- destitution
- devoir
- die for
- distress
- do without
- drive for
- duty
- essential
- exact
- exigency
- extremity
- feel a dearth of
- feel the necessity for
- feel the pinch
- go hungry
- hanker
- have occasion for
- have occasion to
- have use for
- hunger
- hurt for
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insufficiency
- lack
- long
- longing
- lust
- miss
- must
- necessitate
- necessity
- neediness
- obligation
- occasion
- ought
- paucity
- pennilessness
- penury
- pine
- poorness
- privation
- require
- requisite
- right
- shortage
- suffer privation
- the urge
- thirst
- urgency
- use
- want
- weakness
- wish
- yearn
- yen for
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