need

need is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adverb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
2. noun. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
3. noun. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
4. noun. Situation of need; peril; danger.
5. noun. To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
6. intransitive verb. To be wanted; to be necessary.
7. adverb. Of necessity. See Needs.
8. noun. 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

   "we did not understand his motivation"

   "he acted with the best of motives"

   Synonyms: motivation, motive

9. noun. anything that is necessary but lacking

   "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"

   "I tried to supply his wants"

   Synonyms: want

10. noun. a condition requiring relief

    "she satisfied his need for affection"

    "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"

    Synonyms: demand

11. noun. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

    "their indigence appalled him"

    "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

    Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury

12. verb. have need of

    "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

    Synonyms: require, want

13. verb. have or feel a need for

    "always needing friends and money"

14. verb. require as useful, just, or proper

    "It takes nerve to do what she did"

    "success usually requires hard work"

    Synonyms: ask, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take

Synonyms

motivation, motive, want, demand, indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury, require, ask, involve, necessitate, postulate, take

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in need:

dene, eden, ende

Common word forms

needs, needed, needer, needly, needful, needing, needless, needment

Words from these letters

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