Needful

Word NEEDFUL
Character 7
Hyphenation need ful
Pronunciations /ˈniːdfəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Needful"

What do we mean by needful?

Necessary; required. adjective

Being in need of something. adjective

Needy people considered as a group. noun

Having or exhibiting need or distress; needy; necessitous.

Necessary; requisite.

Synonyms Requisite, etc. (see necessary), indispensable.

Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. adjective

Necessary for supply or relief; requisite. adjective

Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensible. adjective

Anything necessary or requisite. noun

Ready money; wherewithal. noun

Necessary for relief or supply adjective

Ready money; wherewithal.

Anything necessary or requisite.

An indian term usually used in place of the word "necessary" Urban Dictionary

An informal question sometimes used to covertly offer the sale of illicit drugs, usually Cannabis. Urban Dictionary

A group of Indian Technology professionals attempting to make sub-English requests to on-shore technical teams. Derived from the Indian request to "please do the needful", or "kindly do the needful", where "the needful" refers to "the necessary". Urban Dictionary

"The need?" is a phrase used to question what the point is in someone or something, essentially a shortened version of "what's the need in that?" Urban Dictionary

Adj/statement: udescription of any event, smell, taste, sight, feeling etc that is totally unnecessary. Urban Dictionary

N. American Slang - to want. Urban Dictionary

1. To want desperately 2. To want for (in the British sense) Urban Dictionary

1. A word denoting that a person or object is found to be wanting. 2. An exclamation used when something is found to be hilariously inadequate or unsatisfactory. 3. Abbreviation of Special Needs, i.e. Mentally or Physically retarded. Urban Dictionary

Something everyone has that you must meet if you want to succeed etc. Easier said than done. We learn through our trauma, which is -at it's fundamental level- the experience of lacking something that we need and want in our life, that our need will not be met, and worse than that, that our needs are not ok. If basic needs aren't met according to the law of attraction life will naturally align you with people who can help you meet those unmet needs and it aligns you with ways and opportunities for you to meet your own needs. See also Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Needs. Urban Dictionary

A want disguised as a need Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Needful

The word "needful" in example sentences

It meant they were just sick of this constant idea that the one thing needful is to put more people in the West -- and more people, and yet more people. ❋ Unknown (1930)

Methinks it must have been a precursive vapour of the madness that afterwards infolded me, for I know well that there is not one called Death, that he is but a word needful to the weakness of human thought and the poverty of human speech; that he is a no-being, and but a change from that which is. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

The one thing needful is certainly meant of that which Mary made her choice -- sitting at Christ's feet, to hear his word. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Mary was a good Christian and still earnestly seeking the one thing needful, which is full salvation, or holiness of heart and life. ❋ Dougan Clark (N/A)

Then to make the sight perfect, these things are needful, that is to wit, the cause efficient, the limb of the eye convenient to the thing that shall be seen, the air that bringeth the likeness to the eye, and taking heed, and easy moving. ❋ Robert Steele (1902)

Now a commonplace person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

"P.S. No name needful, for you will not be astray about the hand." ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things. ❋ Hugh Binning (1640)

And, by the way, there is no reason to believe that it was "needful" for Congress to bar slavery in the territories, unless, of course, one accepts John Marshall's evisceration of the word "necessary" in McCulloch. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She organized four great Hospital Units, initiated every kind of needful sanitary precaution, looked into every detail, regardless of her own safety and comfort, hesitating at no task, however loathsome and terrible. ❋ Helen Fraser (N/A)

There are men whom one cannot help loving and admiring though they lack a great many things -- things very "needful" to make them perfect men. ❋ Timothy Titcomb (N/A)

Unions as determining the relationship between the American Union and the Insular regions -- "needful" rules and regulations being those which are adapted to accomplish the end desired and which are consistent with the principles of the Law of Connections and Unions as declared in the Declaration of Independence. ❋ Alpheus Henry Snow (1889)

Union and the Insular regions -- "needful" rules and regulations being those which are adapted to accomplish the end desired and which are in accordance with the principles of the law of nature and of nations as declared in the Declaration of Independence. ❋ Alpheus Henry Snow (1889)

Giles, who looked on Dennet as a kind of needful appendage to the ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Of course, being acute men of business, they took every "needful" precaution, and being men of experience, they were not blind to the fact that many vessels were annually lost; they therefore insured schooner and cargo to their full value. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Our public colleges and universities through their boards of visitors have the authority to establish policies that are "needful" to carry out the mission of the institutions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hi, with regards to that help you [promised] me, [kindly] [do the needful]. ❋ Matt (2004)

[Word], [you need] on? ❋ Lil Yee (2018)

The "[needfuls]" just [raped] us today [on code] defects. ❋ Aceandgary (2009)

Person 1: [Gary] is such a fucking [arsewipe] Person 2: [I know], the need? ❋ Enters (2013)

[Fat] men in [thongs] - [NO NEED]! ❋ Princess Lurpak Of HR/Day-dee (2003)

Man, I really need to [get that] [sweet] new [phone]! ❋ BobCheesyface (2011)

1. "I need a burrito/blow job/good kick [to the head]." 2. "[I need you] to [untie] me if you want a hand job." ❋ A Needy Individual (2005)

1. Dude 1 "I'm not coming out tonight, I'm watching Lost." Dude 2 "[Rah] boy, you've got needs." 2. "Look! I got new trousers" "[Urgh], needs." 3. "Where's your brother today?" "He's in the special unit cos he has [special needs]." ❋ DomGee (2008)

We all have [needs]. ❋ Dawwwgin (2018)

I "need" those [cookies] [over there]. ❋ Shelby Longbottom (2017)

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