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Meanings of needful in English

Necessary for relief or supply.

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Usage of needful in English
1
The needful thing was an examination of the origin of the evil.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
2
The foreman sets the workmen he can spare at the needful repairs.
Rides on Railways
3
I had just married; it was needful to make a great exertion.
Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
4
Vigorous and united efforts were needful; but all seemed feeble and irresolute.
Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
5
This is all but needful preparation; and I shall be very happy.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
6
In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written.
Villette
7
Yes; I dare say, if it was needful for Christie to go.
Christie Redfern's Troubles
8
Therefore we always find it needful to have plenty still in stock.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
9
Poetry is quite as natural and as needful to mankind as science.
A Trip to Venus: A Novel
10
It is needful that we get it ashore before the tide turns.
A Sea Queen's Sailing
11
But he did not care; he had done all that was needful.
The Belgians to the Front
12
And told him so much as I thought needful of the facts.
Catriona
13
The nurse is ready, and she has everything needful for the baby.
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
14
She said it was rare for him to be so... well... needful.
Speaks the Nightbird
15
While Brown made the needful repairs, I sat upon the grassy bank.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
16
They had reached the limit beyond which it was no longer needful.
Vane of the Timberlands
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Needful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare