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单词 needful
释义
needful
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈniːd.fəl/us
/ˈniːd.fəl/
necessary:
需要的，必需的
We must not put them in moredangerthan is needful.我们一定不能让他们处于不必要的危险中。
needingsomething:
需要…的
They are needfulofaffection.他们需要关爱。
do the needful
UKold-fashionedorIndian English
to do what isnecessaryin asituation:
做必需做的事
Notifyyourbankand they will do the needful.通知你的银行，他们会处理该办的手续。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Essential or necessary
  • basically
  • basis
  • be a question ofdoing somethingidiom
  • box ticking
  • business-critical
  • dependence
  • elemental
  • if need beidiom
  • if/when push comes to shoveidiom
  • incumbent
  • indispensable
  • inhere insomething
  • necessitate
  • necessity
  • need
  • needed
  • non-discretionary
  • owe
  • symbiotically
  • warrant
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Wanting things
Lacking things
(Definition ofneedfulfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofneedful

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They were considered less suitable landholders than sons, and lessneedfulthan widows.
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The key argument on oaths in this commentary is contained in his observation that solemn oaths are both profitable andneedful.
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Theneedfulattempt, to make language and divinity plain and easy.
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Travelling abroad, despite its short-term costs, was deemed 'needfulexpenditure' in bringing long-term benefits to administrative practices.
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In societies where this practice is consideredneedful, deprivation occurs as soon as two or more children are without choice consigned to the same bed.
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They described the phrase "to do theneedful" as "obsolescent", "clumsy", "really comical", "lower class" and "faulty".
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If ever there was aneedfulcall for further research it is in this area of the effectiveness of legal institutions.
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They serve their superiors; in exchange the superiors allow the inferiors what they have decided isneedful.
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Is that because they are the mostneedfulclass in our society?
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Therefore, you are taking away from what isneedfulin order to spend it on what is not needed.
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Many veterans with still undiagnosed illnesses—scores of them terminally ill—now rank among the mostneedfulof our fellow citizens.
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The cost of the increases to these classes ofneedfulpeople need not overwhelm us.
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I miss in it an injunction to the one thingneedful.
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I am inclined to think that it may beneedfulto revert to this question on some future occasion.
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Amongneedfulolder people with two or more children, 16 per cent report help from sons, and 56 per cent from daughters.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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