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Needed   /nˈidəd/  /nˈidɪd/   Listen
Needed

adjective
1.
Necessary for relief or supply.  Synonyms: needful, required, requisite.



Need

verb
(past & past part. needed; pres. part. needing)
1.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
2.
Have need of.  Synonyms: require, want.
3.
Have or feel a need for.



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"Needed" Quotes from Famous Books



... told him about the lost heiress his father was searching after, and showed him his sister's picture. 'Black Bart' instantly recognized her resemblance to Christie Maclaire, and thought he saw a good chance for some easy money. He needed the papers, however, to ascertain exactly the terms of the will, and what would be necessary for the identification. He never intended to go into court, but hoped to either get Waite out of the way, or else convince him that Christie was the girl, ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish

... heard Uncle Frank say so. Mother asked where a doctor lived, and Uncle Frank showed her that white house. I was on the porch and I heard him. He said if ever we needed a doctor we only had to go there and Doctor Bond would come right away. He's the ...
— The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch • Howard R. Garis

... thought that we needed some gold-leaf, and he has borrowed that from your storeroom, but I must make it good." Then in English, "Stand up, Mr. Davies. What the - in - do you mean by taking their gold-leaf? My -, are we a set of pirates to scrape the guts out of a Levantine ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling

... George liked them blazing from the broiler, and there was the black coffee to set over. This latter was to fortify George at his post, for it was agreed that he was not to sleep lest he should fail to awaken at the need and demand of the beloved potentate in the cradle; and Marna now needed a little stimulant if she was to keep comfortably awake during a long evening—she who used to light the little lamps in the windows of her mind ...
— The Precipice • Elia Wilkinson Peattie

... out-of-doors, cigarettes in hand, and the rhythmic swish-swash of the river told that the tide was rising. The dried-up gullies and canals became silver-streaked with the incoming spray, and it needed only a windmill to make the scene as Dutch as a Van Der Neer. Piloti was moody. Something worried him, but as I was not in a very receptive condition, I forbore questioning him. We walked over the closely ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker


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