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needed

adjective US /ˈniːdəd/

necessary for relief or supply

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,350 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,590 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.

What it means

adjective

  1. necessary for relief or supply also: needful, required, requisite provided them with all things needful

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

needed in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • The needed addition--this much at least chiming with good luck--is brief.

    Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice · James Branch Cabell · Chapter 1

  • I thought I could succeed in conquering the fortune I needed to obtain your hand.

    Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1

  • I needed only one look at him, and I had the answer to the mystery of the footprints.

    The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1

  • I see now that you needed a blow in the face to wake you up--and you got it.

    The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1

  • The cavalcade, he said, needed a scout that would report any traces of robbers he might detect among the rocks and bushes.

    The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1

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