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 lack or loss of a quality that something used to have, or should properly have.
- 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
- noun Serious pain, suffering, or worry, especially of an urgent kind.
- verb To cause someone anxiety, pain, or worry.
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