| need | (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 | Synonyms: motivation, motive |
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| (noun) anything that is necessary but lacking | Synonyms: want |
| (noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: demand |
| (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: require, want |
| (verb) have or feel a need for | - |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take |
| needed | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needful, required, requisite |
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| needer | (noun) a person who wants or needs something | Synonyms: wanter |
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| needful | (adjective) necessary for relief or supply | Synonyms: needed, required, requisite |
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| needfully | (adverb) in an essential manner | Synonyms: necessarily |
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| neediness | (noun) the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree | - |
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| (noun) a state of extreme poverty | Synonyms: deprivation, privation, want |
| needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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| (noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
| (noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
| (noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
| (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| needlecraft | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlework |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlework |
| needled | (adjective) of trees whose leaves are acerate | - |
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| needlefish | (noun) fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates | Synonyms: pipefish |
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| (noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: billfish, gar |
| needlelike | (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, sharp |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| needless | (adjective) unnecessary and unwarranted | Synonyms: gratuitous, uncalled-for |
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| needlessly | (adverb) without need | - |
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| needlewoman | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, seamstress, sempstress |
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| needlewood | (noun) large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea leucoptera, needle-wood, needle wood |
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| needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle | Synonyms: needlecraft |
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| (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread | Synonyms: needlecraft |
| needleworker | (noun) someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle | - |
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| needs | (adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity |
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| needy | (adjective) demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | - |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken |
| (noun) needy people collectively | - |