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needful
[need-fuhl]
needful
/ ˈԾːʊ /
adjective
necessary; needed; required
archaicneedy; poverty-stricken
noun
informalmoney or funds
do you have the needful?
to perform a necessary task
Other Word Forms
- needfully adverb
- needfulness noun
- unneedful adjective
- unneedfully adverb
- ˈԱڳܱԱ noun
- ˈԱڳܱ adverb
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
the needful, money, especially immediately available cash.
They haven't the needful for a car right now.
Example Sentences
Council, harms our most needful citizens and provides legislative solutions that are potentially dangerous for them and the community.
His grief-stricken family has sought explanations as to how doctors could have found their loved one competent to “choose” death much less needful of it.
Many will be young men and women who will risk prison, or worse, to deliver the facts to a needful public — even if some of the public don't want to hear it.
I am grateful to the composers, lyricists, performers and musicians for bringing their wonderful, inspiring gift of music to a needful world.
He is doing the needful to train the boy for recruitment into his Regiment.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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