(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for. / (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. / (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

(slang) Ready money; wherewithal. / (India, chiefly archaic in other dialects) Anything necessary or requisite.

Necessary; being required.

simple past tense and past participle of need

Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable. / (archaic) Needy; in need.

(idiomatic) If necessary; if there is a need.

Lacking basic necessities such as food and shelter; poor; indigent. / In distress or otherwise difficult circumstances. / (when followed by “of”) needing (the specified necessities).

plural of needing

plural of needfulness

plural of needful