need

How to sign: 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";

Similiar / Same: necessitate, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, take

Within this category: claim, cost, cry out for, draw, govern, imply

need

How to sign: 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";

Similiar / Same: motivation, motive

Categories: psychological feature

Within this category: ethical motive, irrational motive, life, psychic energy, rational motive, urge

need

How to sign: a state of extreme poverty or destitution
"their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless";

Similiar / Same: indigence, penury, pauperism, pauperization, beggary

Categories: impoverishment, poorness, poverty