Needful
adjective
Required or essential.
They took some needful rest after the long journey.
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- needful rest
- needful measure
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Formal
noun
Things that are necessary or essential.
She packed the needful for the trip.
Often appears as...
- bring the needful
- do the needful
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Informal
adjective
Required or essential.
They took some needful rest after the long journey.
Often appears as...
- needful rest
- needful measure
Usage tips
Formal
noun
Things that are necessary or essential.
She packed the needful for the trip.
Often appears as...
- bring the needful
- do the needful
Usage tips
Informal
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Pro Tip 1/3Old-fashioned Usage
The adjective form of 'needful' is rarely used in modern English and may sound outdated.
Please take the needful caution while handling these antiques.
Pro Tip 2/3Literary Context
'Needful' as an adjective often appears in classic literature or historical contexts.
They sought the needful herbs to treat the wounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Dramatic Effect
When used today, 'needful' might be employed to create a dramatic or solemn tone.
He vowed to undertake the needful quest to honor his forebears.
Pro Tip 1/3Old-fashioned Usage
The adjective form of 'needful' is rarely used in modern English and may sound outdated.
Please take the needful caution while handling these antiques.
Pro Tip 2/3Literary Context
'Needful' as an adjective often appears in classic literature or historical contexts.
They sought the needful herbs to treat the wounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Dramatic Effect
When used today, 'needful' might be employed to create a dramatic or solemn tone.
He vowed to undertake the needful quest to honor his forebears.
Pro Tip 1/3Old-fashioned Usage
The adjective form of 'needful' is rarely used in modern English and may sound outdated.
Please take the needful caution while handling these antiques.
Pro Tip 2/3Literary Context
'Needful' as an adjective often appears in classic literature or historical contexts.
They sought the needful herbs to treat the wounds.
Pro Tip 3/3Dramatic Effect
When used today, 'needful' might be employed to create a dramatic or solemn tone.
He vowed to undertake the needful quest to honor his forebears.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.
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Isaac Barrow
English Mathematician
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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Rowan Williams
English Theologian
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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Guy Finley
American Writer
It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Italian Writer
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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John Millington Synge
Irish Poet
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
American Writer
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
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Felicity Kendal
English Actress
Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.
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Isaac Barrow
English Mathematician
That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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Rowan Williams
English Theologian
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
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Guy Finley
American Writer
It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Italian Writer
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
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John Millington Synge
Irish Poet
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
American Writer
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
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