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Needful

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Adjective

1. needed, needful, required, requisite

necessary for relief or supply

Example Sentences:
'provided them with all things needful'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Needful

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adjective
1. 
necessary; needed; required
2. archaic
needy; poverty-stricken
noun
3.  the needful
4.  do the needful

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Needful

see synonyms of needful
adjective
1. 
necessary; needed; required
2.  Archaic
needy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Needful

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adj.
1. Necessary; required: needful repairs.
2. Being in need of something: "The mother ... is attracted, distracted, needful of the outside world just when the child requires her to be focused, steady, home" (Anne Roiphe).
n.
(used with a pl. verb) Needy people considered as a group: programs that provided jobs for the needful.

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