1. Have a requirement for
   "This piano needs the attention of a competent tuner";
   - want, require
    
2. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This job needs a lot of patience and skill";
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take, involve, call for, demand
    
3. Have or feel a need for
   "always needing friends and money"

1. Anything that is necessary but lacking
   "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs";
   - want
    
2. A condition requiring relief
   "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work";
   - demand
    
3. A state of extreme poverty or destitution
   "a general state of need exists among the homeless";
   - indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization

Sounds like: kneed, k

Derived forms: needed, needing, needs

Type of: be, bear on, concern, condition, essential, exist, have to do with, immiseration, immiserisation [Brit], immiserization, impoverishment, necessary, necessity, pertain, poorness, poverty, refer, relate, requirement, requisite, status, touch, touch on

Encyclopedia: Need, Stephen