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- Dictionaryneed/nēd/
verb
- 1. require (something) because it is essential or very important: "I need help now" Similar
- 2. expressing necessity or obligation: "need I say more?" Similar
noun
- 1. circumstances in which something is necessary, or that require some course of action; necessity: "the basic human need for food" Similar
- 2. a thing that is wanted or required: "his day-to-day needs" Similar
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a. : a lack of something requisite, desirable, or useful. a building adequate for the company's needs. b. : a physiological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism. health and education needs. 3. : a condition requiring supply or relief. The house is in need of repair.
to have to have something, or to want something very much: Babies need constant care. The doctor said I needed an operation. [ + to infinitive ] I need to go to the toilet. Most people need to feel loved. [ + obj + to infinitive ] I need you to help me choose an outfit. I badly need (= strongly want) a rest from all this.
A need is something essential: people need food, water, and shelter. When you lack them, you're in need. Besides physical needs like sleep, people have lots of psychological needs: like for love and friendship. To pass an exam, you need to study.
Need definition: a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation. See examples of NEED used in a sentence.
to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged. to need to do more work. 3. (takes an infinitive without to) used as an auxiliary in negative and interrogative sentences to express necessity or obligation, and does not add -s when used with he, she, it, and singular nouns.
Need as a main verb has the question form do you need?, the negative you don’t need and the past forms needed, did you need? and didn’t need. It has two meanings: 1. to require something or to think that something is necessary:
v. need·ed, need·ing, needs. v.aux. To be under the necessity of or the obligation to: They need not come. You needn't be concerned. v.tr. 1. To have need of; require: The family needs money. We need to get some more paint. 2. To have an obligation (to do something): You need to clean up your room. 3.
Definition of need noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English need1 /niːd/ S1 W1 verb 1 [transitive] to have to have something or someone, because you cannot do something without them, or because you cannot continue or cannot exist without them SYN require You don’t really need a car. Plants need light in order to survive.
used in order to say that someone does not have to do something or should not do something: You didn't need to come all this way. You don't need to be frightened. She needn't have taken him to the hospital. need verb [T] (NECESSARY ACTION) B1. If something needs something to be done to it, that thing should be done in order to improve it:
