Usually means: Required or necessary for completeness.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word needful:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. needful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. needful: Merriam-Webster
  3. needful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. needful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. needful, the needful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. needful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Needful, needful: Wordnik
  8. needful: Wiktionary
  9. needful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. needful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. needful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Needful, needful, the needful: Dictionary.com
  13. Needful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. needful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. needful: Rhymezone
  16. needful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. needful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Needful: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. needful: FreeDictionary.org
  20. needful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. needful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. needful: Legal dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. needful: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Needful, needful: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Needy; in need.
▸ noun:  (slang) Ready money; wherewithal.
▸ noun:  (India, chiefly archaic in other dialects) Anything necessary or requisite.

Similar:
needed, necessary, required, requisite, needable, necessitous, needsome, equinecessary, indispensable, obligate, more...

Opposite:
needless, unnecessary, pointless, superfluous

Phrases:
do the needful, Needful Things, is needful, more...

Adjectives:
one, more, only, present, least, painful, everything, former, calm, social, small

Colors:
    charcoal,     olive,     burgundy,     forest green,     maroon, more...



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Similar:
needed, necessary, required, requisite, needable, necessitous, needsome, equinecessary, indispensable, obligate, more...

Opposite:
needless, unnecessary, pointless, superfluous

Phrases:
do the needful, Needful Things, is needful, more...

Adjectives:
one, more, only, present, least, painful, everything, former, calm, social, small

Colors:
    charcoal,     olive,     burgundy,     forest green,     maroon, more...



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