Hypertext Webster Gateway: "needful"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Needful \Need"ful\, a.
1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
[Archaic] --Chaucer.
The needful time of trouble. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.
All things needful for defense abound. --Dryden.
-- {Need"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Need"ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
needful
adj : necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all
things needful" [syn: {needed}, {required}, {requisite}]
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