Definitions for needed

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needed need·ed

Spelling: [nee-did]

IPA: /ˈni dɪd/

Needed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in needed (ddeeen).

Definitions for needed

noun

1. a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation:
2. a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary:
3. urgent want, as of something requisite:
4. necessity arising from the circumstances of a situation or case:
5. a situation or time of difficulty; exigency:
6. a condition marked by the lack of something requisite:
7. destitution; extreme poverty:

Idioms

1. if need be, should the necessity arise:

adjective

1. necessary, required, or wanted (usually used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to have need of; require:

verb (used without object)

1. to be under an obligation (used as an auxiliary, typically in an interrogative or in a negative statement, and followed by infinitive, in certain cases without to; in the 3d person singular the form is need, not needs):
2. to be in need or want.
3. to be necessary:

Origin of needed

First recorded in 1610-20; need + -ed²

Examples for needed

Perhaps, as Dwight Garner wrote, Steinberg just needed an idea for a book.

Henry moved forward to interfere once more, but this time he was not needed.

Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.

This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

Sparrow could have all the money he needed upon the following condition.

Just how many fake nodes would be needed in order to pull off a successful Sybil attack against Tor is not known.

We read Thomas Piketty because we needed to understand these failures to have any hope of grappling with them.

Perhaps it was some law of opposites, and she needed some one of lighter nature than her own.

The assistant said I needed him, but, to the best of my recollection, he kneaded me.

If an increase of power was needed to secure this, they would not fail to ask it.