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Not — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • distress noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
  • hardship noun A period of severe difficulty, suffering, or lack; hard times.
  • necessity noun The state of being required or unavoidable.
  • need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
  • privation noun The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
  • want verb To wish for or desire something.

Senses

Not is used for these senses in English:

  • distress Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
  • distress Serious danger.
  • necessity The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
  • need Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
  • privation The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.

distress — full definition

  1. noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
  2. verb To cause someone anxiety, pain, or worry.

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