needful

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of needful

1 something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment

fortunately, the family had the needful to stock up the larder before the long hard winter

Synonyms of needful

bread [slang], bucks, cabbage [slang], cash, change, chips, coin, currency, dough, gold, green, jack [slang], kale [slang], legal tender, lolly [British], long green [slang], loot, lucre, money, moola (or moolah) [slang], pelf, scratch [slang], shekels (also sheqels), tender, wampum

Words Related to needful

coinage, specie

dead presidents [slang], folding money, paper money, scrip

banknote, cashier's check, check, draft, money order, note, promissory note

bill, dollar, greenback

bankroll, capital, finances, funds, roll [slang], wad, wallet

chump change, dibs [slang], dime, mite, peanuts, pittance, shoestring

big bucks, bomb [British], boodle, bundle, earth, fortune, king's ransom, megabucks, mint, packet [chiefly British], pile, pot

abundance, means, opulence, riches, treasure, wealth

resources, wherewithal

mad money, petty cash, pin money, pocket money, spending money

2 something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable

packed a warm jacket and other needfuls for an autumn weekend in the country

Synonyms of needful

condition, demand, essential, must, must-have, necessary, necessity, need, requirement, requisite, sine qua non

Words Related to needful

precondition, prerequisite

advantage, edge, plus

desideration, desideratum, wish

Near Antonyms of needful

amenity, comfort, extra, extravagance, frill, indulgence, luxury, superfluity, surplus, surplusage

Antonyms of needful

nonessential, nonnecessity

needful

Synonyms and Antonyms of needful

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