<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there</li><li>a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary: to fulfill the needs of the assignment</li><li>urgent want, as of something requisite: He has no need of your charity</li><li>Synonyms: requirement</li><li>necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case: There is no need to worry</li><li>a situation or time of difficulty; exigency: to help a friend in need; to be a friend in need</li><li>Synonyms: emergency</li><li>a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership</li><li>destitution; extreme poverty: The family's need is acute</li><li>Synonyms: privation, penury, indigence, neediness</li><li>Antonyms: wealth</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to have need of; require: to need money</li><li>Synonyms: lack, want</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to be under an obligation (used as an auxiliary, typically in an interrogative or in a negative statement, and followed by infinitive, in certain cases without to; in the 3d person singular the form is need, not needs): He need not go</li><li>to be in need or want</li><li>to be necessary: There needs no apology</li></ul>