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Princeton's WordNet

  1. needed, needful, required, requisiteadjective

    necessary for relief or supply

    "provided them with all things needful"

Wiktionary

  1. neededadjective

    Necessary; being needed.

  2. Etymology: From. The adjective follows from the verb.

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  1. needed

    Needed refers to something that is necessary or required for a particular purpose or situation. It implies a lack or absence of the item or action, suggesting that it is crucial or essential to meet certain needs, goals, or expectations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Needed

    of Need

Editors Contribution

  1. needed

    Needed

    110%


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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'needed' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #568

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'needed' in Written Corpus Frequency: #995

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of needed in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of needed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of needed in a Sentence

  1. Primo Levi:

    In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

  2. John Kenneth Galbraith:

    Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  3. Richard Milhous Nixon:

    The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

  4. Shania Twain:

    Right from the beginning, I was not going to collaborate with anybody for this one, this needed to be an independent experience. I hadn’t written by myself for a long time. I was married for 14 years to my collaborator, and I really just needed to do that again. I needed to go back and do that by myself and have an uninterrupted flow of creativity that was insular, to see what I was made of, to see what I have there.

  5. Michael Jordan:

    But you have to realize that the reason why I was treating Michael Jordan like that is because I needed Michael Jordan to be tough in the playoffs and were facing the Indianas and Miamis and New Yorks in the Eastern Conference. Michael Jordan needed to be tough and I needed to know that I could count on Michael Jordan. And those are the kind of things where people see me acting the way I acted in practice, theyre not going to understand it. I said to Michael Jordan, Thats great because this is an opportunity. We have 10 hours here to peel back the onion and have you articulate all the things you just articulated to me. EX-NBA CHAMPION RECALLS RUBBING MICHAEL JORDAN FOR GOOD LUCK BEFORE GAME : I THOUGHT IT WAS AWKWARD Jordan said in one of the episodes that winning has a price, according to The Athletic. He said if a certain standard wasnt being met by one of his teammates, he would step in and explain to the person what was going on And leadership has a price, Michael Jordan reportedly says. So I pulled people along when they didnt want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didnt want to be challenged. And I earned that right because my teammates who came after me didnt endure all the things that I endured. Once you joined the team, you lived at a certain standard that I played the game. And I wasnt going to take any less. Now, if that means I had to go in there and get in your ass a little bit, then I did that. You ask all my teammates. The one thing about Michael Jordan was Michael Jordan never asked me to do something that Michael Jordan didnt fking do. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON Michael Jordan said people may perceive Michael Jordan as a tyrant but thats because nobody has had as much sustainable success as Michael Jordan did. Look, I dont have to do this.

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