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Definition of needful in English: needfuladjective ˈniːdf(ə)lˈniːdfʊlˈnidfəl 1formal Necessary; requisite. 〈正式〉需要的；必要的 a further word was needful 需要再叮嘱几句。 Example sentencesExamples - So now our tinderbox, and cauldron, and roasting fork, and bowls - all of these needful and precious things for our journeying - would lose their importance and become no more than what they were.
- Remember, the devil rolls into a small New England town and opens up an antique store, and he seems to know what that special needful thing is that each and every person wants.
- He reports that many Americans, however, tend to see the ‘war on terror’ as needful, legitimate, necessary.
- What a profound, insightful and needful statement!
- Another statement by Cantillon would also be seen as mercantilist: ‘It is needful to discourage all foreign manufactures and to give plenty of employment to the inhabitants.’
- The hardest thing I learned was to pace myself and do the most needful things first.
- I always ask myself who can still read such books, and how needful it is to read them so as not to lose touch.
- It was hardly needful for Katy to answer with her lips a question to which her tell-tale cheeks had made instant reply.
- At the end of the section he writes: For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold.
- Even when carrying out needful tasks, do not let your intellect be idle but keep it meditating inwardly and praying.
- This is a kind of cultural fostering in which the role of parents is reduced to agents providing the money to buy in what is needful for a rich and complete childhood.
- Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information.
- But if you don't get that primitive, needful howl out of your system you're missing something vital to the human experience.
- The department of Archaeological Survey of India was just a call away from the Estate department officials but the latter did not take pains to do what was needful and prudent.
- If the nation resolved to do all these needful things, by the end of 2005 we would not only be ringing in the New Year but ringing out for joy for the whole nation.
- I wonder how many of us develop a kind of addiction to a spiritual feeling, a spiritual infatuation with God, a beautiful thing, a needful thing, but a thing that is not the real point.
- ‘One thing is needful,’ Nietzsche wrote in The Gay Science.
- But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
- He hoped he could do this without letting any more information slip to the enemy than was needful.
- I have calls to make, and do not wish to detain you for longer than is needful.
- The roads are also needful for safe delivery of agricultural inputs to the small-scale farmers themselves.
Synonyms obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, demanded, needed, called for necessary, needed, required, requisite 2dated Needy. 贫困的，贫苦的 she gave her money away to needful people 她把她的钱都给了贫苦的人。 Example sentencesExamples - My own thinking is that he's not so much in need of a keep fit campaign as he's needful of an outlet for all that energy.
- With disarming frankness, she told how she believed her daughter was too trusting with other people, giving too much of herself when ‘she herself was needful of affection and understanding’.
- The proposed minimum wage boost would hurt the very ones who are most needful of jobs - the poor.
- The unconvincing swagger of maturity has been the pretend independence of a adolescent: a strained relationship with the parent country: resentful but at the same time needful.
- Generous to a fault (and also needful to an extreme), Nouwen never quite found a place to call home except in his final years with the disabled.
- His body pressed atop mine so possessively; so needful and wanting.
- I'd like to think that Elvis was there for all who were needful, or hard of heart.
Synonyms poor, deprived, disadvantaged, underprivileged, in want, badly off, hard up, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, unable to make ends meet, unable to keep the wolf from the door, poverty-stricken, indigent, impoverished, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse, dirt poor, destitute, penurious, impecunious, penniless, moneyless
noun ˈniːdf(ə)lˈniːdfʊl the needfulWhat is necessary. 必须做的事情 I call upon the authorities to do the needful 我吁请当局做些必须做的事情。 Example sentencesExamples - He urged the Chief Minister to do the needful in this regard so that the deplorable condition of jails all over the state could be improved.
- The tone of the letter suggested that he was more than willing to do the needful.
- He does the needful by giving the newborn a drop of honey.
- The club has already informed Leicester City that it cannot finance its visit; the hosts will have to do the needful.
- But with a 16 year experience of holding those scissors and combs, Sandrine was sure that a bit of layering will do the needful.
- Even had he the benefit of the scaffolding erected behind Firhill's western end, it is doubtful whether he would have been able to do the needful.
- Finally, to avoid any further embarrassment, Aryan took out his credit card and did the needful.
- At this stage - and for less money - I'm prepared to take the job and hire six graduates from Napier and Heriot Watt Universities to do the needful.
- Brennan did the needful and so no one lost face in this domestic skirmish.
- While many view the death penalty as a harsh and irrevocable step, they also hold that a life sentence would do the needful: it would protect society from the consequences of the criminal's destructive acts.
- The game was just two minutes old when Hawks were lured offside under their own posts and Bernard Hennessey did the needful.
- In the meantime, police could do well to demonstrate that they are a capable force able to do the needful despite difficulties they encounter in accessing some of the basic needs.
- The try deserved a conversion and against the wind Peterson did the needful.
- Hopefully, the Chief Minister would do the needful at the right time, he said, throwing a sideways glance at a smiling Mr. Antony.
Derivativesadverb On the presidential campaign trail, though, it might be more accurate to describe him as needfully verbose. Example sentencesExamples - She brushed the stuffed animals onto the floor and drew him needfully into her arms.
noun In their third encounter, Sarah seeks out Eddie at the bus station cafe and wordlessly communicates her needfulness. Example sentencesExamples - It is something that exists apart from our desires and apart from our needfulness.
- The argument should be about the needfulness and the efficacy of the specific reforms that the government is carrying out.
- So many times kids question the needfulness of things they study.
Definition of needful in US English: needfuladjectiveˈnēdfəlˈnidfəl 1formal Necessary; requisite. 〈正式〉需要的；必要的 a further word was needful 需要再叮嘱几句。 Example sentencesExamples - He hoped he could do this without letting any more information slip to the enemy than was needful.
- But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
- The roads are also needful for safe delivery of agricultural inputs to the small-scale farmers themselves.
- It was hardly needful for Katy to answer with her lips a question to which her tell-tale cheeks had made instant reply.
- I always ask myself who can still read such books, and how needful it is to read them so as not to lose touch.
- I have calls to make, and do not wish to detain you for longer than is needful.
- So now our tinderbox, and cauldron, and roasting fork, and bowls - all of these needful and precious things for our journeying - would lose their importance and become no more than what they were.
- Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information.
- Remember, the devil rolls into a small New England town and opens up an antique store, and he seems to know what that special needful thing is that each and every person wants.
- What a profound, insightful and needful statement!
- The department of Archaeological Survey of India was just a call away from the Estate department officials but the latter did not take pains to do what was needful and prudent.
- If the nation resolved to do all these needful things, by the end of 2005 we would not only be ringing in the New Year but ringing out for joy for the whole nation.
- He reports that many Americans, however, tend to see the ‘war on terror’ as needful, legitimate, necessary.
- I wonder how many of us develop a kind of addiction to a spiritual feeling, a spiritual infatuation with God, a beautiful thing, a needful thing, but a thing that is not the real point.
- But if you don't get that primitive, needful howl out of your system you're missing something vital to the human experience.
- Another statement by Cantillon would also be seen as mercantilist: ‘It is needful to discourage all foreign manufactures and to give plenty of employment to the inhabitants.’
- Even when carrying out needful tasks, do not let your intellect be idle but keep it meditating inwardly and praying.
- This is a kind of cultural fostering in which the role of parents is reduced to agents providing the money to buy in what is needful for a rich and complete childhood.
- ‘One thing is needful,’ Nietzsche wrote in The Gay Science.
- At the end of the section he writes: For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold.
- The hardest thing I learned was to pace myself and do the most needful things first.
Synonyms obligatory, requisite, required, compulsory, mandatory, imperative, demanded, needed, called for necessary, needed, required, requisite 2dated Needy. 贫困的，贫苦的 she gave her money away to needful people 她把她的钱都给了贫苦的人。 Example sentencesExamples - My own thinking is that he's not so much in need of a keep fit campaign as he's needful of an outlet for all that energy.
- The proposed minimum wage boost would hurt the very ones who are most needful of jobs - the poor.
- His body pressed atop mine so possessively; so needful and wanting.
- I'd like to think that Elvis was there for all who were needful, or hard of heart.
- The unconvincing swagger of maturity has been the pretend independence of a adolescent: a strained relationship with the parent country: resentful but at the same time needful.
- With disarming frankness, she told how she believed her daughter was too trusting with other people, giving too much of herself when ‘she herself was needful of affection and understanding’.
- Generous to a fault (and also needful to an extreme), Nouwen never quite found a place to call home except in his final years with the disabled.
Synonyms poor, deprived, disadvantaged, underprivileged, in want, badly off, hard up, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, unable to make ends meet, unable to keep the wolf from the door, poverty-stricken, indigent, impoverished, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse, dirt poor, destitute, penurious, impecunious, penniless, moneyless
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