Needful Definition

nēdfəl
adjective
Necessary; needed; required.
Webster's New World
Being in need of something.
American Heritage
Needy.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
Needy people considered as a group.
Programs that provided jobs for the needful.
American Heritage
Anything necessary or requisite.
Wiktionary

Ready money; wherewithal.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Needful

Noun

Singular:
needful
Plural:
needfuls

Origin of Needful

  • From Middle English needeful, nedeful, equivalent to need +"Ž -ful.

    From Wiktionary

Needful Sentence Examples

  • Of the former it is not needful to speak here.

  • It was Diniz who initiated the needful reforms. He earned his title of the rei lavrador or "farmer king " by introducing improved methods of cultivation and founding agricultural schools.

  • There were two type beds and two inking tables, which travelled backwards and forwards, and one platen only, situated in the middle of the machine, which in turn gave the needful impression as the type-formes passed underneath.

  • And told him so much as I thought needful of the facts.

  • Buddhism repudiated the authority of the Veda, but found it needful to supply its place; and the word of the omniscient Teacher, faithfully reported by his disciples and guaranteed by concurrent traditions, became the rule of belief for the new Order.

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Words Starting With

NNENEE

Words Ending With

LULFUL

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Words Starting With N and Ending With L

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With N7 Letter Words Ending With L