Opposite word of need

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1. need

   Necessity is the quality of being necessary, or the quality of that which can not but be, become, or be true, or be accepted as true. Need and want always imply a lack; necessity may be used in this sense, but in the higher philosophical sense necessity simply denotes the exclusion of any alternative either in thought or fact; righteousness is a necessity (not a need) of the divine nature. Need suggests the possibility of supplying the deficiency which want expresses; to speak of a person’s want of decision merely points out a weakness in his character; to say that he has need of decision implies that he can exercise or attain it. As applied to a deficiency, necessity is more imperative than need; a weary person is in need of rest; when rest becomes a necessity he has no choice but to stop work. An essential is something, as a quality, or element, that belongs to the essence of something else so as to be inseparable from it in its normal condition, or in any complete idea or statement of it. Compare NECESSARY; PREDESTINATION.

   Antonyms:
   choice, contingency, doubt, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, fortuity, freedom, option, possibility, uncertainty

   Synonyms:
   compulsion, destiny, emergency, essential, exigency, extremity, fatality, fate, indispensability, indispensableness, necessity, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, unavoidableness, urgency, want

   Preposition:
   The necessity of surrender; a necessity for action; this is a necessity to me.

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   • Condition
   • Necessity

Princeton’s WordNetRate these antonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. need, demandnoun

   a condition requiring relief

   «she satisfied his need for affection»; «God has no need of men to accomplish His work»; «there is a demand for jobs»

   Synonyms:
   indigence, pauperism, demand, pauperization, requirement, motive, motivation, want, penury

2. need, wantnoun

   anything that is necessary but lacking

   «he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs»; «I tried to supply his wants»

   Synonyms:
   indigence, pauperism, deprivation, demand, pauperization, wish, wishing, privation, deficiency, motive, motivation, lack, neediness, want, penury

3. motivation, motive, neednoun

   the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

   «we did not understand his motivation»; «he acted with the best of motives»

   Synonyms:
   indigence, motivating, demand, pauperization, want, motive, motivation, pauperism, motif, penury

4. indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperizationverb

   a state of extreme poverty or destitution

   «their indigence appalled him»; «a general state of need exists among the homeless»

   Synonyms:
   motive, pauperism, demand, impoverishment, pauperization, indigence, motivation, pauperisation, want, penury

5. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demandverb

   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 postulate a patient’s consent»

   Synonyms:
   require, read, pick up, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, inquire, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, study, learn, fill, necessitate, bespeak, invite, imply, consume, drive, hire, posit, consider, rent, pick out, collect, quest, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, gather up, lease, take aim, want, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, make, claim, regard, enquire, request, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, call for, affect, expect, bring, command, submit, convey, shoot, aim, direct, contend, charter, get, contain, take in, subscribe, involve, acquire, look at, postulate, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct

6. want, need, requireverb

   have need of

   «This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner»

   Synonyms:
   take, require, expect, demand, involve, ask, desire, command, postulate, call for, necessitate, want

7. needverb

   have or feel a need for

   «always needing friends and money»

   Synonyms:
   take, involve, require, demand, ask, postulate, call for, necessitate, want

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1. neednoun

   Synonyms:
   want, necessity, extremity, strait, exigency, urgency, poverty, penury, privation, indigence

2. needverb

   Synonyms:
   require, lack, want

How to use need in a sentence?

1. Joseph Costello:

   To increase muscle size, you need muscle damage and repair; that’s just the body’s natural regeneration process. However, if cold water or (cryotherapy) blunt the inflammatory response, you may not get (muscle building).

2. Nancy Messonnier:

   We’re obviously not doing a good enough job because it’s not getting to every place that we want it to, so we need to work harder.

3. Brooke Alpert:

   Eating too much sugar basically bombards your taste buds, this sugar overkill causes your taste bud sugar tolerance to go up, so you need more and more sugar to satisfythat sweet craving.

4. Diane Driggers:

   We go through a process. Ourfilter blocks some things based on the category of the site, if any teachers or any administrators find other sites that students havegotten to that we need to block, we can manipulate that filter and add thosesites to it as well.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   So if it turns out, as the data come in, we see we do need to give an additional dose to people in nursing homes, actually, or people who are elderly, we will be absolutely prepared to do that very quickly.

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