needful

adjective

1. necessary or required: needful supplies.
2. needy.

Idioms

3. the needful, Slang. money, especially immediately available cash: They haven’t the needful for a car right now.

adjective

1. necessary; needed; required
2. archaic needy; poverty-stricken

noun

3. the needful informal money or fundsdo you have the needful?
4. do the needful to perform a necessary task

adj.late 12c., niedfulle, “needy,” from need (n.) + -ful. Meaning “characterized by need” is from mid-13c.; meaning “indispensable” is from mid-14c.; noun meaning “what is necessary” is from 1709. Colloquial sense of “cash” is recorded from 1774 in phrase the needful “money.” Related: Needfully.