IN NEED: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for IN NEED?

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Associations of "In need" (30 Words)

covet	Wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person. She covets her sister s house.
crave	Ask for. If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved.
dearth	An insufficient quantity or number. There is a dearth of evidence.
demand	The act of demanding. The boss demanded that he be fired immediately.
essential	(of a disease) with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic. The essential weakness of the plaintiff s case.
famine	Hunger. The cotton famine of the 1860s.
hunger	Feel or suffer hunger. When he had fasted forty days and forty nights he afterwards hungered.
inadequacy	Inability to deal with a situation or with life. Juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents.
indispensability	The quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without.
indispensable	Absolutely necessary. An indispensable worker.
insufficiency	Inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally. Renal insufficiency.
integral	The result of a mathematical integration F x is the integral of f x if dF dx f x. The first integral recording of the ten Mahler symphonies.
lack	Be without or deficient in. There is a lack of parking space in the town.
necessary	Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances. They granted the necessary planning permission.
necessitate	Make (something) necessary as a result or consequence. The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed.
necessity	The condition of being essential or indispensable. A good book is a necessity when travelling.
needs	Of necessity. We must needs by objective.
obligate	Commit (assets) as security. An obligate anaerobe can survive only in the absence of oxygen.
oblige	Make (someone) legally or morally bound to do something. Tell me what you want to know and I ll see if I can oblige.
perforce	By necessity; by force of circumstance. Amateurs perforce have to settle for less expensive solutions.
prerequisite	Required as a prior condition or course of study. Latin was a prerequisite for admission.
request	The verbal act of requesting. To have our ideas taken seriously is surely a reasonable request.
require	Require as useful just or proper. Please indicate how many tickets you require.
required	Required by rule. Required reading.
requisite	A thing that is necessary for the achievement of a specified end. The application will not be processed until the requisite fee is paid.
scarcity	The state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage. A time of scarcity.
shortage	A state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts. Food shortages.
shortfall	A deficit of something required or expected. They are facing an expected 10 billion shortfall in revenue.
vital	The body’s important internal organs. Blood and other vital fluids.
want	Feel or have a desire for want strongly. Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI.