needfully

1. 1.

   in an essential manner

   “such expenses are necessarily incurred”

   Synonymsnecessarily

Questions about needfully

What does needfully mean?

needfully means "in an essential manner".

How many syllables are in needfully?

needfully has 3 syllables and divides as need-ful-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for needfully?

Close synonyms include necessarily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is needfully a common word?

needfully is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.