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語源

From 中期英語 needeful, nedeful, from 古期英語 nēodful (“necessary; earnest; zealous”). Equivalent to need +‎ -ful. Cognate with Dutch noodvol, German notvoll.

発音

• IPA: /ˈniːdfl̩/
• ハイフネーション: need‧ful

形容詞

needful (comparative more needful, superlative most needful)

1. Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable.

   Antonym: needless

   • 1719, “An ACT, Stating the due Aſſize of Bread”, in The Charter Granted by His Majeſty, King Charles the Second, to the Colony of Rhode-Iſland, and Providence-plantations in America‎, John Allen, page 59:

     And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That in every Town in the Colony, where Bread is Baken for Sale, there ſhall be Choſen one Clerk of the Market, or more, as each Town ſhall find needful, at their Annual Election of Town Officers, who ſhall duly be Engaged, to the faithful performance of ſaid Office, as other Town Officers are ; […]

   • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

     So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.

   • 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 114:

     So Ut-napishtim obeyed the god Ea and gathered together the wood and all things needful for the building of the ship, and on the fifth day he laid down the hull.

2. (archaic) Needy; in need.
   • 1860, Union Society of Savannah, Minutes of the Union Society, page 114:

     […] where his active benevolence was ever found in cheerful co-operation for the cause of the humble & needful orphan […]

派生語

名詞

needful (plural needfuls)

1. Anything necessary or requisite.
   • 1857, Charlotte Bronte, The Professor, collected works, J.M. Dent & Co. 1893, p. 57:

     I think better of you for looking steadily to the needful.

2. (slang) Ready money; wherewithal.

使用する際の注意点

The use of the first sense in phrases such as "kindly do the needful" is seen as stereotypical of Indian English and is generally rare in other dialects.

派生語

• do the needful

アナグラム

• Neufeld