Necessary; being required.

simple past tense and past participle of need

(idiomatic) If necessary; if there is a need.

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for. / (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. / (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

(countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed. / Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of need

plural of need

(archaic) Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.

present participle of need

A need.