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needful Definition

need·ful (nēdfəl)

adjective

  1. necessary; needed; required
  2. Archaic needy

needful Related Forms
need·fully adverb need·ful·ness noun
needful Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • make: And there are two things needful to make a man dead to the law; ?
  • explain: The mention of courage in this connection is needful to explain the silence.
  • give: It's myself that would be sorry if it were needful to give you a lesson.
  • place: Of course he has felt it needful to place a different spin on things.

Modifies a noun

  • thing: We must accept our needful things wherever we find them.
  • work: And today the needful work is to distinguish ourselves from our machines.
  • supply: I am further directed to furnish you with the needful supplies and men.
  • provision: I found an excellent presentation and discussion by David Cressey in the chapter called " Needful Provisions " in his book Coming Over.
  • matter: I have needful matter in hand, Since I carry my tribute of fish to the jealous king of the land.
  • time: We were very thankful to Satan for furnishing that good help at the needful time.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: How very needful, therefore, it is to give earnest heed to the moral basis on which our prayers are presented.
  • not: I might fitly let the matter pass without remark, were it not needful to rectify a grave misrepresentation.
  • so: O poor Antonio, tho nothing be so needful To thy estate as pity, yet I find Nothing so dangerous!

Used with adjective complement

  • think: And told him so much as I thought needful of the facts.
  • seem: There is one other remark of a general kind which it seems needful to make.
  • become: He worked himself into a fine breathing heat; in which, to a man of his temperament, action became needful.

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