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Needs

adverb

1.

In such a manner as could not be otherwise. Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity. "We must needs by objective"

Need

verb

(past & past part. needed; pres. part. needing)

1.

Require as useful, just, or proper. Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take. "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" Antonym: obviate.

2.

Have need of. Synonyms: require, want.

3.

Have or feel a need for.

noun

1.

A condition requiring relief. Synonym: demand. "God has no need of men to accomplish His work" , "There is a demand for jobs"

2.

Anything that is necessary but lacking. Synonym: want. "I tried to supply his wants"

3.

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. "He acted with the best of motives"

4.

A state of extreme poverty or destitution. Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury. "A general state of need exists among the homeless"

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"Needs" Quotes from Famous Books

... they loved each other, and so loved life and everything and everybody, and God's great green out-o'-doors was their playhouse. Margaret's income was quite sufficient for their needs, and mad ambition passed them by. Gainsborough drew pictures and painted and sketched, and then gave his ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard

... to me in my dreams, therefore is there sorrow in my heart, since thou must needs ...

— The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) - With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda • Anonymous

... the frost is cruel, and he would have been sorely feared with the leaping and howls of the beasts. There were always trees at hand as we fled, if needs were to take to them. It was in my mind that it were best to try to get him ...

— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler

... stumbles on a household where the woman does not disdain housewifely work, and specially the practical superintendence of the kitchen, there we may be sure we shall find cheerfulness and content. There seems to be something in the life of a practical housekeeper that answers to the needs of a woman's best nature, and that makes her pleasant and good-tempered. Perhaps it is the consciousness that she is doing her duty—of itself a wonderful sweetener of the nature; perhaps the greater amount of bodily exercise keeps the liver in good tone; whatever the cause, sure it is that ...

— Modern Women and What is Said of Them - A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) • Anonymous

... England and Canada were not cast off by their people while there was any hope of reforming them, but when that last hope perished at last, the ne'er-do-well was sent abroad to get him out of the way. He was shipped off with just enough money in his pocket—no, in the purser's pocket—for the needs of the voyage—and when he reached his destined port he would find a remittance awaiting him there. Not a large one, but just enough to keep him a month. A similar remittance would come monthly thereafter. It was the remittance-man's custom to pay his month's board ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

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