Definition of require

"require" in the verb sense

1. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand

require as useful, just, or proper

"It takes nerve to do what she did"

"success usually requires hard work"

"This job asks a lot of patience and skill"

"This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"

"This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"

"This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

2. ask, require, expect

consider obligatory request and expect

"We require our secretary to be on time"

"Aren't we asking too much of these children?"

"I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

3. command, require

make someone do something

4. want, need, require

have need of

"This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

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Quotations for require

Great men never require experience. [ Beaconsfield ]

Lordly vices require lordly estates. [ Proverb ]

All things require skill but an appetite. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Great designs require great considerations. [ Proverb ]

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. [ French Proverb ]

Working and making a fire doth discretion require. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. [ Emerson ]

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded. [ Hannah More ]

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [ Chamfort ]

The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

I have made as much of myself as could be made of the stuff and no man should require more. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Infirmity and sickness may excite our pity; but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health. [ Rousseau ]

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. [ Saadi ]

There are some women who require much dressing, as some meats must be highly seasoned to make them palatable. [ Rochebrune ]

Fortitude, justice, and candor are very necessary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. [ Sydney Smith ]

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Spoons and skimmers, you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a simple reason, - they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. [ Colton ]

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

Friendship and love require the deepest and most entire confidence, but souls of a high character demand not communications of a familiar nature. [ Humboldt ]

Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. [ Montaigne ]

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

We want more loving knowledge to enable us to enjoy life, and we require to cultivate the art of making the most of the common means and appliances of enjoyment which lie about us on every side. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]

His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]

Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and coloring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his characters. [ Junius ]

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]

require in Scrabble®

The word require is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters require:

QUERIER
(128 = 78 + 50)
REQUIRE
(128 = 78 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

querier, require

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word require

REQUIRE
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REQUIRE
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REQUIRE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In require

QUERIER
(128 = 78 + 50)
REQUIRE
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REQUIRE
(122 = 72 + 50)
REQUIRE
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QUERIER
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QUERIER
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require in Words With Friends™

The word require is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters require:

REQUIRE
(152 = 117 + 35)
QUERIER
(152 = 117 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

querier, require

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word require

REQUIRE
(152 = 117 + 35)
REQUIRE
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REQUIRE
(104 = 69 + 35)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In require

REQUIRE
(152 = 117 + 35)
QUERIER
(152 = 117 + 35)
QUERIER
(146 = 111 + 35)
QUERIER
(109 = 74 + 35)
REQUIRE
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QUEER
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Words within the letters of require

2 letter words in require (2 words)

3 letter words in require (3 words)

5 letter words in require (2 words)

7 letter words in require (Anagrams) (2 words)

Words containing the sequence require

Words that start with require (7 words)

Words with require in them (3 words)

Words that end with require (2 words)

Word Growth involving require

Shorter words in require

re ire quire

Longer words containing require

prerequire prerequired

prerequire prerequires

required prerequired

requirement requirements

requirer requirers

requires prerequires