needful
IPA: nˈidfʌɫ
noun
- (slang) Ready money; wherewithal.
- (India, chiefly archaic in other dialects) Anything necessary or requisite.
adjective
- Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable.
- (archaic) Needy; in need.
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Examples of "needful" in Sentences
- "P.S. No name needful, for you will not be astray about the hand."
- Ye have large and airy apprehensions of temporal things, which ye call needful, and ye cannot behold eternal things.
- The one thing needful is certainly meant of that which Mary made her choice -- sitting at Christ's feet, to hear his word.
- Mary was a good Christian and still earnestly seeking the one thing needful, which is full salvation, or holiness of heart and life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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