NEED vs OUGHT: NOUN
- That which is needful; something necessary to be done.
- Time of want; exigency; emergency: as, “a friend in need is a friend indeed.”
- Specifically, want of the means of subsistence; destitution; poverty; indigence; distress; privation.
- The lack of something that is necessary or important; urgent want; necessity.
- Synonyms Necessity, Need (see necessity and exigency) emergency, strait, extremity, distress.
- A condition of poverty or misfortune.
- Necessity; obligation.
- Something required or wanted; a requisite.
- A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved.
- 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
- A state of extreme poverty or destitution
- A condition requiring relief
- A perilous extremity.
- Anything that is necessary but lacking
- Something required.
- A requirement for something.
- Want, Indigence, etc. See poverty.
- A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
- Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
- Situation of need; peril; danger.
- That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
- Alternative spelling of aught. cipher, zero, nought.
- See aught.
- A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted to what is the case.
- Possession: same as aught.
- Nought; a cipher.
NEED vs OUGHT: VERB
- To be obliged or required (to do something).
- To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- Require as useful, just, or proper
- Have need of
- Have or feel a need for
- To have an absolute requirement for.
- To be necessary (to someone).
- Simple past of owe.
- Indicating duty or obligation.
- Indicating advisability or prudence.
- Indicating desirability.
- Indicating likelihood or probability.
NEED vs OUGHT: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To be wanted; to be necessary.
- To be necessary.
- To be in need or want.
- To want to be subject to.
- To be subject (to an action) by obligation.
- To be under the necessity of or the obligation to.
- To have an obligation (to do something).
- To have need of; require.
- N/A
NEED vs OUGHT: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
- N/A
NEED vs OUGHT: ADVERB
- Of necessity. See needs.
- Alternative spelling of aught. at all, to any degree.
NEED vs OUGHT: PRONOUN
- N/A
- Alternative spelling of aught. anything
NEED vs OUGHT: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To be wanted; be necessary: used impersonally.
- Synonyms Ward, etc. See lack.
- To have necessity or need for; want; lack; require.
- The reason for the action
- Needs; necessarily.
- Same as aught. Compare naught, nought.
- Owned; the preterit of the verb owe, to possess, own. See owe.
- Owed; the preterit and past participle of the verb owe, to be indebted or obliged.
- To be held or bound in duty or moral obligation.
- To be fit or expedient in a moral view; be a natural or expected consequence, result, effect, etc.
- To befit: used impersonally.
- = Syn. 3-5. Ought, Should. Ought is the stronger, expressing especially obligations of duty, with some weaker use in expressing interest or necessity: as, you ought to know, if any one does. Should sometimes expresses duty: as, we should be careful of others' feelings; but generally expresses propriety, expediency, etc.: as, we should dot our i's and cross our t's.
- Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
- To be necessary or advisable; behoove.
- Owned; possessed.
- To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
- To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate obligation or duty.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate probability or likelihood.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate desirability.
- (auxiliary verb) Used to indicate advisability or prudence.
NEED vs OUGHT: RELATED WORDS
- Motive, Have got, Pauperism, Involve, Motivation, Demand, Take, Necessitate, Have, Ask, Require, Ought, Should, Must, Want
- Want, Zero, Antinomy, Gotta, Will, Shall, Could, Oughta, Would, Might, Can, Had better, Need, Must, Should
NEED vs OUGHT: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Motive, Have got, Pauperism, Involve, Motivation, Demand, Take, Necessitate, Have, Ask, Require, Ought, Should, Must, Want
- Behooves, Want, Zero, Antinomy, Gotta, Will, Shall, Could, Oughta, Would, Might, Can, Need, Must, Should
NEED vs OUGHT: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- People that had a need to know and a need to access it?
- No need to change the original class and no need for an adapter class.
- Helping you get the products you need, when you need them.
- You need to determine the number of VPN client connections that you need to support.
- Not only do you need to have one, but other players also need to have their own.
- Yes, we need laws, but the laws need to deal with my competitor and not my industry.
- This is what you need to know about the marriage laws and what documents you need.
- Cover, right need to do so, all you need to is!
- Therefore, if students need guarantees of quality and confidentiality, this company has everything they need.
- Need The need part of the statement always begins with a single sentence explaining the need driving the project.
- The Ukrainians ought to investigate it and to the extent it happened here in the US, we ought to be investigating it.
- Because we ought to live in the world as Christians, we ought to evaluate moral issues as Christians.
- For example at a banquet do not say how a man ought to eat, but eat as you ought to eat.
- But those times, the court ought to feel hesitant about doing that and ought to make sure that it has gotten it right.
- It is prescriptive in the sense that it involves deciding what we ought to do, how we ought to live and why.
- The Senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.
- Constitution ought to be interpreted, how statutes should be read, and what judges ought to do in the face of manifest injustice.
- Christians ought to stay away from pagan learning of all sorts in the same way they ought to avoid pagan religious practices.
- Thorne takes a more targeted view by relying on prescriptive reasoning to determine what ought and ought not be done.
- The field of ethics addresses how we ought to treat each other, how we ought to act, what we ought to do, and why.
NEED vs OUGHT: QUESTIONS
- Do you need tissue inserts for wedding invitations?
- Do stallions need social interaction with other horses?
- Does Pillsbury biscuit dough need to be refrigerated?
- Does your business need self-funded health insurance?
- What is the need&importance of maintenance management?
- What do hypnotherapists need to know before hypnosis?
- Why do care workers need effective communication skills?
- Why do we need denominations in financial instruments?
- What temperature does chocolate need to be tempered?
- Do carbohydrates need to be consumed before tryptophan?
- What does it mean when someone says I ought to know?
- What is the meaning of every citizen ought to help?
- What every goddess ought to know about slippery elm bark?
- How to account for supererogation without giving up the ought?
- What you ought to know about thyroid problems in cats?
- Is the ought-to L2 self a valid motivational construct?
- Why are ought and need often called semi-modal verbs?
- What every woman ought to know about love and marriage?
- What should Everybody Ought to know about flower water?
- Is there a distinction between an ought-to and an anti-ought-to L2 self?