Adjective needed has 1 sense
- needed, needful, required, requisite - necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"
Antonyms: unnecessary, unneeded (indirect, via necessary)
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Verb need has 3 senses
- necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand - require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "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 postulates a patient's consent"
Sample sentence:
They need him to write the letter
- want, need, require - have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
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Sample sentences:
They need more bread
They need him to write the letter
They need to move
- need - have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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