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needful

[ need-fuhl ]

adjective

  1. necessary or required:

    needful supplies.



needful

/ ˈԾːʊ /

adjective

  1. necessary; needed; required
  2. archaic.
    needy; poverty-stricken
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the needful informal.
    money or funds

    do you have the needful?

  2. do the needful
    to perform a necessary task
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԱڳܱԱ, noun
  • ˈԱڳܱ, adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of needful1

Middle English word dating back to 1125–75; need, -ful
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. the needful, Slang. money, especially immediately available cash:

    They haven't the needful for a car right now.

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Example Sentences

Council, harms our most needful citizens and provides legislative solutions that are potentially dangerous for them and the community.

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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.

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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.

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I am grateful to the composers, lyricists, performers and musicians for bringing their wonderful, inspiring gift of music to a needful world.

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He is doing the needful to train the boy for recruitment into his Regiment.

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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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