Reverse Dictionary: NEED

ADJECTIVES
► BEHOOVEFUL ► BEHOVEFUL useful, of use; advantageous, expedient; needful, necessary, due → 1382 arch.
► BEHOVELY useful, profitable; needful, necessary → c950 obs.
► BEHOVING useful, needful, appropriate → c1175 obs.
► DABRICH poor, needy → c1800 Sc.
► DEAD FOR in desperate need of → 1876 Amer. sl.
► DOWN ON ONE’S UPPERS very needy → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► EGENE needy, poor → 1631 obs.
► EGESTUOSE very poor and needy → 1775 obs.
► EGESTUOUS extremely poor and needy → 1656 obs.
► EQUINECESSARY needful in an equal degree; equally necessary → 1663 obs.
► HARD RUN hard pressed; subjected to pressure of one kind or another, usually financial; without resources; needy → 1791 Amer. dial.
► ILL-TO-DO in poor circumstances, poor, needy → 1853
► MISTERFUL needy, in want or difficulty → 1641 Sc. obs.
► NAUGHTY having or possessing naught; poor, needy → 1377 obs.
► NECESSAR necessary, needful, requisite → 1701 Sc. 
► NECESSITOUS in need of a thing → 1650 obs.
► NEEDCESSITOUS necessary, needful → 1839 Sc. 
► NEEDFUL of persons: needy, necessitous → a1175
► NEEDSOME * marked by need; needy, poor → 1870
► STIVER-CRAMPED needy, wanting money → 1785 obs.
► SUFFRETOUS needy, in want, miserable → c1450 obs.
► THURFE needed, needful, wanting → 1200 obs.
► WAEDLE poor, needy → c1000 obs.
► WANTFUL 1. characterized by deficiency or need; poor, needy → 1607 obs.
2. full of wants; needing, exacting → 1889
► WANTING lacking in money or necessaries of life, needy, necessitous → a1616 obs.

ADVERBS
► BEHOVELY usefully, needfully, necessarily → c1430 obs.
► NEEDILY in a needy fashion → 1642 obs.

NOUNS
► ARTICLE, THE the precise thing; the thing or person most needed → c1850 colloq.
► BEETS needful things → 1911 Sc. ​ (Bk.)
► DOINGS things needed → 1913 sl.
► EGENCE need, the existence of needs → 1865
► EGENCY neediness, poverty → 1600 obs.
► FIX what a person craves or needs → 1993 US sl.
► ILL-FARE a state of need or discomfort → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IRISH KING something one needs → 1960 NZ sl.
► JUST THE JOB something which is wanted or needed → 1943 sl.
► MISTER need, want, necessity → 1641 Sc. obs.
► MOSSY AGATE something that is ‘just the thing’ → E20 Brit. sl.
► NACE the destitute, the needy → 1871 Sc.
► NECESSITUDE need, necessity → 1839
► NEEDAM need, poverty, beggary → 1573 obs.
► NEEDCESSITY necessity, a state of need → 1706 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► NEEDHAM need, poverty, beggary → 1573 obs.
► NEEDIHOOD neediness → 1648 obs.
► NEEDING an occasion or time of need → a1300 obs.
► NEEDMENTS needs, requirements → 1603 chiefly Sc.
► NEEDY-HOOD neediness → 1648 obs.
► NEEF ► NEIF difficulty; need → 1742 Sc.
► OCCASIONS needs, requirements → 1596 obs.
► OPPORTUNITY a time when there is occasion or need for something → 1526 obs.
► RAINY DAY a time of need → c1580
► SHOT, THE something that is wanted or needed → 1953 Aust. sl.
► SUDDEN a sudden need, danger, or the like; an emergency → 1559 obs.
► SUFFRETE want, need → c1430 obs.
► TICKET, THE something which is wanted or needed → 1838 sl.
► TIDEFULNESS a fit or expedient season; time of need → a1340 obs.
► VERY ARTICLE, THE the precise thing; the thing or person most needed → c1850 colloq.
► WANE need, want, poverty → a1100 obs.
► WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED something needed or desired

NOUNS – PERSON
► LACK-ALL one who is in want of everything; a thoroughly destitute or poor person; a needy fellow → 1850 
► NEEDLING a needy person → 1608 obs.
► POOR SNAKE a poor, needy, or humble person; a drudge → 1590
► VERY ARTICLE, THE  the thing or person most needed → c1850 colloq.

PHRASES
► THAT’S THE TICKET that’s just what is needed → 1838 US sl.

 VERBS
► BEHOVE to be physically of use, needful, or necessary to → 1154 obs.
► COME THE BIG FIGURE to do or provide what is required → 1848 Amer. sl.
► THOLE to allow, to permit, to admit of; to require, to stand in need of → 1864 Sc. & Eng. dial.