needful
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adjective \ˈnēd-fəl\Definition of NEEDFUL
1
: being in need
See Examples of NEEDFUL
- What's most needful now is patience.
- <let's first help the needful families in our own community>
First Known Use of NEEDFUL
12th century
Related to NEEDFUL
- Synonyms
- all-important, critical, imperative, indispensable, integral, must-have, necessary, necessitous, needed, essential, required, requisite, vital
- Antonyms
- dispensable, inessential, needless, nonessential, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded
Rhymes with NEEDFUL
2needful
nounDefinition of NEEDFUL
1
: something needed or requisite
2
: money
Examples of NEEDFUL
- <fortunately, the family had the needful to stock up the larder before the long hard winter>
- <packed a warm jacket and other needfuls for an autumn weekend in the country>
First Known Use of NEEDFUL
1709
Related to NEEDFUL
- Synonyms
- bread [slang], bucks, cabbage [slang], cash, change, chips, coin, currency, dough, gold, green, jack [slang], kale [slang], legal tender, lolly [British], long green [slang], loot, lucre, moola (or moolah) [slang], money, pelf, scratch [slang], shekels (also sheqels or shekelim or shekalim or sheqalim), tender, wampum
- Antonyms
- nonessential, nonnecessity
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