Needing

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Need \Need\ (n[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Needed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Needing}.] [See {Need}, n. Cf. AS. n[=y]dan to force,
     Goth. nau[thorn]jan.]
     To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to
     require, as supply or relief.
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           Other creatures all day long
           Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. --Milton.
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     Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary,
           generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement
           or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change
           of termination in the third person singular of the
           present tense. "And the lender need not fear he shall
           be injured." --Anacharsis (Trans. ).
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "needing":
     appetitive, arrested, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow,
     defective, deficient, denuded of, deprived of, desiderative,
     desireful, desiring, desirous, destitute of, devoid of, eager,
     embryonic, empty of, failing, for want of, forlorn of, hoping,
     hormic, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default,
     in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete,
     infant, lacking, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish,
     lustful, missing, optative, out of, out of pocket, part, partial,
     patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy,
     shy of, sketchy, tempted, unblessed with, underdeveloped,
     undeveloped, unpossessed of, void of, wanting, wishing