Synonyms of needful

needful 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in necessary

impossible to do without

purchase needful provisions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• necessary
• required
• needed
• essential
• integral
• vital
• imperative
• crucial
• indispensable
• critical
• important
• requisite
• all-important
• necessitous
• mandatory
• compulsory
• prerequisite
• must-have
• basic
• urgent
• key
• fundamental
• of the essence
• obligatory
• major
• meaningful
• momentous
• organic
• pressing
• central
• substantial
• material
• insistent
• significant
• consequential
• persistent
• nonelective
• weighty

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• unnecessary
• needless
• nonessential
• unessential
• dispensable
• unimportant
• superfluous
• unneeded
• unwanted
• extra
• inessential
• undesired
• insignificant
• excess
• extraneous
• external
• inconsequential
• surplus

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• unnecessary
• needless
• nonessential
• unessential
• dispensable
• unimportant
• superfluous
• unneeded
• unwanted
• extra
• inessential
• undesired
• insignificant
• excess
• extraneous
• external
• inconsequential
• surplus

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2

as in poor

lacking money or material possessions

let's first help the needful families in our own community

Synonyms & Similar Words

• poor
• impoverished
• broke
• needy
• deprived
• necessitous
• beggared
• beggarly
• destitute
• impecunious
• bankrupt
• indigent
• hard up
• famished
• penurious
• pauperized
• threadbare
• depressed
• bankrupted
• penniless
• out of pocket
• disadvantaged
• skint
• underprivileged
• poverty-stricken
• out at elbows
• distressed
• out at the elbows
• down on one's luck
• down-and-out
• dispossessed
• ruined
• straitened
• dirt-poor
• short
• unaffluent
• reduced
• insolvent
• possessionless
• bust
• tapped out
• pinched
• busted
• poorish
• hardscrabble
• low
• cash-strapped
• hand-to-mouth

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• rich
• affluent
• wealthy
• moneyed
• opulent
• monied
• flush
• comfortable
• fat
• prosperous
• well-to-do
• well-off
• well-heeled
• silk-stocking
• deep-pocketed
• fat-cat

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• rich
• affluent
• wealthy
• moneyed
• opulent
• monied
• flush
• comfortable
• fat
• prosperous
• well-to-do
• well-off
• well-heeled
• silk-stocking
• deep-pocketed
• fat-cat

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needful

2 of 2

noun

1

as in money

something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment

fortunately, the family had the needful to stock up the larder before the long hard winter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• money
• cash
• coin
• currency
• bucks
• tender
• funds
• change
• lucre
• dough
• legal tender
• gold
• pelf
• coinage
• green
• moolah
• long green
• loot
• wampum
• resources
• shekels
• lolly
• moola
• chips
• sheqalim
• bread
• scratch
• shekalim
• dollar
• cabbage
• specie
• kale
• means
• scrip
• sheqels
• shekelim
• promissory note
• money order
• jack
• wherewithal
• finances
• paper money
• bill
• wallet
• capital
• check
• riches
• pittance
• big bucks
• boodle
• note
• abundance
• draft
• wealth
• treasure
• earth
• mint
• chump change
• folding money
• mite
• dime
• pocket money
• banknote
• greenback
• dead presidents
• bundle
• opulence
• roll
• peanuts
• bankroll
• pin money
• fortune
• petty cash
• pile
• megabucks
• spending money
• mad money
• dibs
• shoestring
• wad
• pot
• cashier's check
• king's ransom
• packet
• bomb

2

as in must

something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable

packed a warm jacket and other needfuls for an autumn weekend in the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

• must
• requirement
• necessity
• necessary
• essential
• need
• requisite
• demand
• condition
• must-have
• prerequisite
• sine qua non
• precondition
• advantage
• wish
• plus
• desideratum
• desideration
• edge

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• extra
• superfluity
• indulgence
• surplus
• nonessential
• comfort
• surplusage
• luxury
• extravagance
• nonnecessity
• frill
• amenity

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• extra
• superfluity
• indulgence
• surplus
• nonessential
• comfort
• surplusage
• luxury
• extravagance
• nonnecessity
• frill
• amenity

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