Word Meanings - NEEDS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need. A man must needs love mauger his head. Chaucer. And he must needs go through Samaria. John iv. 4. He would needs know the cause of his reulse. Sir J. Davies.

Related words: (words related to NEEDS)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• INDISPENSABLY
  In an indispensable manner. "Indispensably necessary." Bp. Warburton.
• EQUIVALENTLY
  In an equal manner.
• WOULD-BE
  ' (as, a would-be poet.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• NECESSITY
  The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• EQUIVALENT
  Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle. (more info) aequivalere to have equal power; aequus equal + valere to be strong, 1. Equal in wortir or value, force, power,
• WOULD
  Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• THROUGHLY
  Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
• OFTENSITH
  Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
• MAUGER; MAUGRE
  In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• UNOFTEN
  Not often.