Deprivation, be crying out for, be compelled to, call, demand, badly off, and crisis are all synonyms for need. Optional, abundance, and surplus are these antonyms of need. And here are another 87 synonyms for need.
Need Synonyms
1. require
- Be crying out for
- Be desperate for
- Be in need of
- Be in want of
- Be short of
- Be without
- Call for
- Called for
- Compulsory
- Demand
- Desired
- Entail
- Essential
- Have need of
- Have occasion for/to
- Involve
- Lack
- Lacking
- Miss
- Necessary
- Necessitate
- Obligatory
- Require
- Required
- Requisite
- Stand in need of
- Want
- Wanted
- Mandatory
2. have to
- Be compelled to
- Be obliged to
- Be under a compulsion to
- Be under an obligation to
- Have to
- Have need to
3. necessity
- Call
- Demand
- Necessity
- Obligation
- Requirement
- Exigency
4. essential
- Demand
- Essential
- Necessity
- Prerequisite
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Want
- Wish
- Desideratum
5. neediness
- Badly off
- Crisis
- Deprivation
- Deprived
- Destitute
- Destitution
- Difficulty
- Dire/desperate straits
- Disadvantaged
- Distress
- Emergency
- Exigency
- Extremity
- Hardship
- Impecunious
- Impecuniousness
- Impoverished
- In want
- Indigence
- Indigent
- Neediness
- Needy
- On the breadline
- Penurious
- Penury
- Poor
- Poverty-stricken
- Poverty
- Privation
- Requiring help
- Trouble
- Unable to make ends meet
- Underprivileged
- Urgency
- Want
- Necessitous