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
So, needfully, Beltane followed, and, stepping into the water found his feet upon a narrow causeway cunningly devised.
From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
It was doubtless half the projection of his mind, but his mind was a thing that, among old waxed parquets, pale shades of pink and green, pseudo-classic candelabra, he had always needfully to reckon with.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
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
