needful
adjective
necessary or required.
needfully
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a word derived from
needful.
Example Sentences
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The four soloists — soprano Pretty Yende, mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino, tenor SeokJong Baek and bass Nicholas Brownlee — were needfully robust and powerful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
To the suggestions of Warden Lawes, the conferees listened needfully.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do keep my book right needfully locked up, for I would not for all the world that Nell nor Edith should read this last fortnight.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
In the olden days it was the pupil who studied the Sunday-school lessons as needfully as he conned the tasks to be prepared for Monday's schoolroom.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland
They were not formal or oppressive about it; all went pleasantly and with seeming spontaneity, as if in accordance with our own desire; but we were wisely and needfully guided.
From Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
