need
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a condition requiring relief
she satisfied his need for affection
Types & categories
- condition hypernym
- deficiency hyponym
- necessity hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
require as useful, just, or proper
It takes nerve to do what she did
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
anything that is necessary but lacking
he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs
Types & categories
- essential hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
have need of
This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- essential derivation
- need derivation
- wanter derivation
- need derivation
- deficiency derivation
Sense 5 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
Types & categories
- psychological feature hypernym
- life hyponym
- rational motive hyponym
- irrational motive hyponym
- impulse hyponym
- ethics hyponym
- psychic energy hyponym
Related & opposite
- prompt derivation
- motivating derivation
- motivational derivation
Sense 6 verb
have or feel a need for
always needing friends and money
Sense 7 noun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
their indigence appalled him
Types & categories
- impoverishment hypernym
- mendicancy hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | condition |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | deficiency |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | necessity |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | obviate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | requirement |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | essential |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | necessity |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | exact |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | exact |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | govern |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | draw |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cost |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cry out for |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | compel |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | want |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | essential |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | essential |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | wanter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | deficiency |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | be |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cry |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | prompt |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | motivating |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | motivational |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | psychological feature |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | life |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | rational motive |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | irrational motive |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | impulse |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | ethics |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | psychic energy |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | pauperize |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | needy |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | penurious |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | impoverishment |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | mendicancy |