Needful and Ready

Needful

Needful noun - Something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment.

Ready and needful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ready" instead a noun "Needful".

Nearby Words: need, needed, needy, needfully

Ready

Ready noun - Poised for action.

Needful and ready are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Needful" instead a noun "Ready".

Nearby Words: readiness, readily, readying, readied

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • The End... Or Is It? Needful Things closes with the reader being welcomed to Junction City, Iowa (see "The Library Policeman" in Four Past Midnight), where a new curiosity shoppe called "Answered Prayers" is just getting ready to open....
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