need

About 264.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A requirement for something; something needed.

   There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.

2. noun A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.
3. noun Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
4. verb To have an absolute requirement for.

   Living things need water to survive.

5. verb To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

   After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.

6. verb To be obliged or required (to do something).

   I need not go if I don't want to, need I?

7. verb To be required; to be necessary.
8. verb To be necessary (to someone).

Similar words

necessitate must have got have ought require demand should want ask

Often followed by

to for not of a be the only is

Word family

needed needing needs