Care and Need

Care

Care noun - Strict attentiveness to what one is doing.

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Need and care are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Care".

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Care and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Care" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

human	human care	human need
good	good care	good need
special	special care	special need
particular	particular care	particular need
Other adjectives: many, genuine, critical, real, constant, extreme, great, serious, little, personal, urgent, immediate, general, possible, apparent, less, greater, greatest.

love	care love	need love
attention	care attention	need attention
power	care power	need power
people	care people	need people
Other words: name, time, way, money, bit, information, magic.

Kitani has nothing left but the need to avenge the Okinagas' deaths by killing them, but instead, he finds their Pure Breed child and is immediately overcome with a need to care for him.

Source: Visual Novel / Sweet Pool
In need of money, he opens up a day care center, "Daddy Day Care" with the help of his best friend Phil.

Source: Film / Daddy Day Care
Not only is he suicidally devoted to anybody who happens to need his help, he also took care of his deadbeat parents as a child instead of running away like a sensible person.

Source: Neutral Good

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