needed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb require as useful, just, or proper
    call for; require; necessitate; involve; need; take; demand; ask; postulate.
    • It takes nerve to do what she did
    • success usually requires hard work
    • This job asks a lot of patience and skill
    • This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
    • This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
    • This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
  2. verb have need of
    need; require; want.
    • This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner
  3. verb have or feel a need for
    need.
    • always needing friends and money
  4. adjective satellite necessary for relief or supply
    needful; required; requisite.
    • provided them with all things needful

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