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Definition of Needful
1. Adjective. Necessary for relief or supply. "Provided them with all things needful"
Similar to: Necessary
Derivative terms: Requisite, Requisiteness
Definition of Needful
1. a. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
Definition of Needful
1. Adjective. Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensible. ¹
2. Noun. Anything necessary or requisite. ¹
3. Noun. Ready money; wherewithal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Needful
1. something that is needed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Needful
Literary usage of Needful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God: Consisting of a Meditation for by William Mason (1803)
"... One thing is needful....Luke x. 42. THE disposition and carriage of the sisters,
Martha and Mary, much resemble the different desires and actings of the ..."
2. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... that what Orders he had given in that Affair ™^ were needful, till the Pleasure
of the Trustees could be ° £ber farther known; yet it would be necessary ..."
3. Short Discourses to be Read in Families by William Jay (1812)
"one thing is needful—It is hearing the Saviour's words, it is an attention to
the soul, it is—religion. What ! is nothing else necessary ? ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Upon undertaking a special consideration of this topic, I found it needful to
examine the recent literature of respiration in animals, the aspect of the ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"... of a system fully occupied with the production of things more needful, namely,
materials for the vigorous increase and consolidation of flesh and bone. ..."
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