Synonyms of the word

need

• n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
• n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
• v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
• v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
• v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

ask

• v. To request (information, or an answer to a question).
• v. To put forward (a question) to be answered.
• v. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
• v. To request or petition; usually with for.
• v. To request permission to do something.
• v. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
• v. To invite.
• v. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
• v. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
• n. An act or instance of asking.
• n. Something asked or asked for; a request.
• n. An asking price.
• n. (Britain dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A lizard.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

demand

• n. The desire to purchase goods and services.
• n. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
• n. A need.
• n. A claim for something.
• n. A requirement.
• n. An urgent request.
• n. An order.
• n. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a…
• v. To request forcefully.
• v. To claim a right to something.
• v. To ask forcefully for information.
• v. To require of someone.
• v. (law) To issue a summons to court.

essential

• adj. Necessary.
• adj. Very important; of high importance.
• adj. (biology) necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
• adj. Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
• adj. Really existing; existent.
• adj. (of a lamination of a 3-manifold) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of…
• adj. (medicine) Idiopathic.
• n. A necessary ingredient.
• n. A fundamental ingredient.

impoverishment

• n. The action of impoverishing someone.
• n. The state of being impoverished.

indigence

• n. extreme poverty or destitution.

involve

• v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
• v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
• v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
• v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
• v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
• v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
• v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
• v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

motivation

• n. Willingness of action especially in behavior.
• n. The action of motivating.
• n. Something which motivates.
• n. An incentive or reason for doing something.
• n. (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial…

motive

• n. (obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine…
• n. An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything…
• n. (obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
• n. (law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
• n. (architecture, fine arts) A motif.
• n. (music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
• v. (transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
• adj. Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move.
• adj. Relating to motion and/or to its cause.

necessary

• adj. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid…
• adj. Unavoidable, inevitable.
• adj. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
• n. (Britain, archaic euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business…

necessitate

• v. (transitive) To make necessary; to require (something) to be brought about.

necessity

• n. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
• n. The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
• n. Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
• n. Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
• n. The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual,…
• n. (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
• n. (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).

pauperism

• n. The state of being a pauper; poverty.

pauperization

• n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

penury

• n. extreme want; poverty; destitution.
• n. a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.

poorness

• n. The quality of being poor.
• n. poverty.

postulate

• n. Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a…
• n. A fundamental element; a basic principle.
• n. (logic) An axiom.
• n. A requirement; a prerequisite.
• adj. Postulated.
• v. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

poverty

• n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
• n. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness.

require

• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
• v. To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
• v. Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
• v. To demand of (someone) to do something.

requirement

• n. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation…
• n. Something asked.
• n. (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation…

requisite

• adj. Essential, required, indispensable.
• n. An indispensable item; a requirement.

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.