plural of needful

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

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

The property of being needful or necessary; necessity.

plural of needfulness

(chiefly UK, auxiliary, indicating absence of necessity) Doesn't have to, don't have to. / (auxiliary, indicating inadvisability) Ought not to.

(obsolete) plural of neede

(obsolete) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of neede

(idiomatic) If need be; 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).