(countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed. / Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

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

(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

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

(rare) Something that is not needed or is excessive.

plural of needing

The property of being needful or necessary; necessity.

plural of needfulness