necropolis, n. cemetery, graveyard, churchyard, memorial park; catacomb, columbarium; burial ground, burial place, golgotha, garden of sleep, God's acre, potter's field; ossuary, charnel house, (of animals) boneyard.

nectarous, adj. sweet, delicious, ambrosial, delectable, fit for a king, fit for the gods; luscious, succulent, juicy, Inf. scrumptious, Inf. yummy, toothsome, mouth-watering; honeyed, sugary, candied, mellifluent, melliferous, sugar-sweet, honey-sweet,

nee, adj. born, formerly, previously, heretofore,

need, n. 1. requirement, demand, requisite, prerequisite; obligation, duty, charge; necessity, essential, Latin, sine qua non; necessitude, essentiality, indispensability.
2. want, lack, desideratum; default, dearth, insufficiency, shortness, paucity, shortcoming.
3. exigency, emergency, crisis, pinch, urgency, stress, matter of life and death.
4. destitution, poverty, neediness, indigence, penury, privation; impecuniosity, straits, extremity, difficulty; pauperism, beggary, mendicancy.
-v. 5. require, demand, necessitate; want, call for, have occasion for, have need of; lack, not suffice, stand in need of, be without, miss; crave for, pine for, yearn for, desire, desiderate, hope for.

needle, n. 1. darner, bodkin, pin, tag, nib, neb, tip; hypodermic needle, Brit. SI. jag, probe, Surg. trocar.
2. stylus, style, point, graver, engraver, scauper; die, tool, punch, stamp; perforator, piercer, puncturer; bit, auger, drill, borer.
3. pine needle, thorn, Bot., Zool. mucro, prickle, sticker; bramble, brier, bristle, spicule, spiculum.
4. arrow, pointer, compass needle, indicator; index finger, hour hand, minute hand.
-v. 5. Informal,

a. goad, spur, prod, provoke; sting, prick, urge, press, nag, whip lash.
b. annoy, irk, vex, nettle, aggravate, rile; pester, tease, devil, SI. bug, pick on, pluck the beard of, SI. razz; ruffle, disturb, exasperate, Inf. miff, Inf. peeve, pique,

needle-shaped, adj. pointed, needlelike, acicular, aciform, acuminate, aculeate, mucronate; spiked, spic-ulate, spicular, toothed, tined, pronged, barbed; sharp, long, slender, keen, thin,

needless, adj. 1. unnecessary, uncalled for, gratuitous, unneeded, unwanted; unessential, nonessential, useless, dispensable, expendable; superfluous, redundant, supererogatory, Fr. de trop, excess, in excess, spare; tautological, pleonastic, expletive, excessive, over and above; wordy, prolix, verbose, circumlocutory.
2. needless to say it goes without saying, obviously, of course, naturally, necessarily, as a matter of course,

needlewoman, n. needleworker, needlepointer, embroiderer, crewelworker, lace maker, tatter; stitcher, sewer, knitter, crocheter.

needlework, n. needlecraft, needlepoint, crewelwork, embroidery, petit point, gros point, point lace, lace-work, tatting, tapestry; sewing, stitching, knitting, crocheting; fancywork, ornamentation, trimming,

needy, adj. destitute, poor, indigent, impecunious; wanting, lacking, strapped, pinched, squeezed; Inf hard up, SI. broke, SI. flat, SI. busted; mendicant, beggared, beggarly, pauperized, impoverished, poor as a church mouse, out of pocket, out of cash, short of cash; penniless, moneyless, necessitous, reduced; without a penny to one's name, without a sou, without a dollar to rub against another; disadvantaged, underprivileged, deprived, on welfare, on relief, in rags, in the poorhouse, Brit, on the dole; in dire straits, in reduced circumstances, poverty-stricken, down and out, bankrupt, insolvent.