needful

/'ni:dful/

Thân thiện

The family received all things needful for their new home.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Necessary, required, or essential: "Needful" describes something that is indispensable or required to meet a need or achieve a purpose.
   • Being in need of something: In some contexts, it can describe a state of being in want or requiring aid.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The charity provided the needful supplies to the disaster victims. (The charity provided the necessary supplies to the disaster victims.)
  • Please do the needful and submit the report by Friday. (Please do what is necessary and submit the report by Friday.)
  • He focused on the needful repairs to make the house safe. (He focused on the essential repairs to make the house safe.)

Advanced Usage

• "to do the needful": A formal or bureaucratic phrase meaning to take the necessary action or steps.

  • The manager instructed his assistant to do the needful to resolve the client's complaint. (The manager instructed his assistant to take the necessary steps to resolve the client's complaint.)

• "all things needful": A phrase meaning everything that is necessary or required.

  • The expedition was equipped with all things needful for survival in the Arctic. (The expedition was equipped with everything necessary for survival in the Arctic.)

Variants and Related Words

• Needfully (adverb): In a necessary manner.

  • The funds were needfully allocated to the most urgent projects. (The funds were necessarily allocated to the most urgent projects.)

• Needfulness (noun): The state or quality of being necessary.

  • The needfulness of the new policy was debated by the committee. (The necessity of the new policy was debated by the committee.)

Synonyms

• Necessary: Required to be done, achieved, or present; essential.
• Essential: Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
• Required: Officially compulsory or mandatory.
• Indispensable: Absolutely necessary.

Antonyms

• Unnecessary: Not needed.
• Superfluous: Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.
• Optional: Available to be chosen but not obligatory.

Related Idioms

• "Do the needful": As noted in advanced usage, this is a set phrase, especially common in formal or business correspondence in some varieties of English, meaning to perform the required actions.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. necessary for relief or supply
   • provided them with all things needful

Từ đồng nghĩa

• needed
• required
• requisite