needfulness

The word “needfulness” has 3 syllables: need-ful-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈniːd.fʊlnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for needfulness?

In the thesaurus, “needfulness” has 87 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for needfulness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for needfulness

  • absence
  • acuteness
  • call
  • cause
  • claim
  • compulsion
  • constraint
  • contingency
  • crisis
  • criticalness
  • crossroad
  • dearth
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • demand
  • demandingness
  • deprivation
  • desideratum
  • dilemma
  • distress
  • duress
  • emergency
  • essence
  • essential
  • exaction
  • exigence
  • exigency
  • extremity
  • famishment
  • fix
  • fundamental
  • godsend
  • hardship
  • imperative
  • imperativeness
  • inadequacy
  • indispensability
  • inevitability
  • inexorableness
  • insufficiency
  • jam
  • juncture
  • lack
  • life or death
  • meagerness
  • minus
  • must
  • must-have
  • necessary
  • necessity
  • need
  • no alternative
  • no choice
  • obligation
  • pass
  • paucity
  • pickle
  • pinch
  • plight
  • poverty
  • precondition
  • predicament
  • prerequisite
  • pressingness
  • pressure
  • privation
  • quandary
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • scantiness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • scrape
  • shortage
  • sine qua non
  • skimpiness
  • stress
  • turning point
  • undeniability
  • urgency
  • vicissitude
  • vital part
  • vitals
  • want
  • wont
  • zero hour

Antonyms for needfulness

  • adequacy
  • advantage
  • auxiliary
  • benefit
  • blessing
  • boon
  • calm
  • comfort
  • desire
  • ease
  • easiness
  • enough
  • excess
  • extra
  • fill
  • fund
  • good
  • good fortune
  • hoard
  • miracle
  • ordinariness
  • overabundance
  • oversupply
  • peace
  • pleasure
  • plenty
  • pool
  • solution
  • stock
  • stockpile
  • sufficiency
  • supply
  • surfeit
  • surplus
  • trivia

Example Sentences

  • In times of crisis, the needfulness of community support becomes apparent as neighbors come together to help each other.
  • The teacher emphasized the needfulness of punctuality in order to maintain a productive learning environment.
  • The success of the project relied heavily on the team's recognition of the needfulness of clear communication and collaboration.
  • Mental health advocates stress the needfulness of destigmatizing discussions around mental illness to encourage seeking help.
  • The leadership seminar focused on the needfulness of empathy and understanding in effective leadership practices.

On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to needfulness, such as: absence, acuteness, adequacy, advantage, auxiliary, benefit, blessing.

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Related Words

absence

lack

  • abridgement
  • absence
  • ask
  • be deficient in
  • be short of
  • be without
  • bear
  • beg
  • blankness
  • challenge
  • claim
  • command
  • crunch
  • curtailment
  • dearth
  • decrease
  • default
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • demand
  • depletion
  • deprivation
  • destitution
  • distress
  • drought
  • drouth
  • emptiness
  • enjoin
  • entail
  • essential
  • exact
  • exigency
  • exiguity
  • failure
  • famine
  • famishment
  • have need of
  • hurting for
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • inferiority
  • insist
  • insufficience
  • insufficiency
  • involve
  • lacuna
  • loss
  • meagerness
  • minus
  • miss
  • necessitate
  • necessity
  • need
  • needfulness
  • not got
  • omission
  • out
  • paucity
  • pinch
  • poorness
  • poverty
  • press
  • privation
  • quest
  • reduction
  • require
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • retrenchment
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • shortage
  • shortcoming
  • shortfall
  • shortness
  • shrinkage
  • shrinking
  • skimpiness
  • slightness
  • stint
  • stipulate
  • take
  • too little too late
  • undersupply
  • vacuity
  • vacuum
  • void
  • want
  • warrant

necessity

  • advantage
  • austerity
  • bankruptcy
  • beggary
  • belt-tightening
  • call
  • cause
  • claim
  • compulsion
  • condition
  • demand
  • deprivation
  • desideration
  • desideratum
  • destituteness
  • destitution
  • duress
  • edge
  • emergency
  • essence
  • essential
  • exaction
  • exigency
  • fundamental
  • godsend
  • gutter
  • impecuniosity
  • impecuniousness
  • imperative
  • impoverishment
  • indigence
  • indispensability
  • inevitability
  • inexorableness
  • insolvency
  • life or death
  • misery
  • must
  • must-have
  • necessary
  • need
  • needful
  • needfulness
  • neediness
  • no alternative
  • no choice
  • obligation
  • pauperism
  • penuriousness
  • penury
  • pinch
  • pinching
  • plus
  • poorness
  • poverty
  • precondition
  • prerequisite
  • privation
  • rainy day
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • sine qua non
  • straitening
  • stress
  • undeniability
  • urgency
  • vital part
  • vitals
  • want
  • wish
  • woe
  • wretchedness

need

  • absence
  • advantage
  • appointment
  • arrangement
  • ask
  • austerity
  • bankruptcy
  • be deficient
  • be deprived
  • be down and out
  • be hard up
  • be in need of
  • be in want
  • be inadequate
  • be needy
  • be poor
  • be short
  • be without
  • bear
  • beg
  • beggary
  • belt-tightening
  • burden
  • call for
  • challenge
  • charge
  • claim
  • coercion
  • command
  • commitment
  • committal
  • compact
  • compulsion
  • condition
  • constraint
  • contract
  • covenant
  • covet
  • crave
  • dearth
  • debt
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • demand
  • deprivation
  • desideration
  • desideratum
  • desire
  • destituteness
  • destitution
  • devoir
  • die for
  • distress
  • do
  • do without
  • drive for
  • duress
  • duty
  • edge
  • emergency
  • engagement
  • enjoin
  • entail
  • essential
  • exact
  • exigency
  • extremity
  • famishment
  • feel a dearth of
  • feel the necessity for
  • feel the pinch
  • force
  • go hungry
  • gutter
  • hanker
  • have occasion for
  • have occasion to
  • have use for
  • hunger
  • hurt for
  • impecuniosity
  • impecuniousness
  • imperative
  • impoverishment
  • inadequacy
  • incumbency
  • indigence
  • insist
  • insolvency
  • insufficiency
  • involve
  • lack
  • long
  • longing
  • lust
  • meagerness
  • minus
  • misery
  • miss
  • must
  • must-have
  • necessary
  • necessitate
  • necessity
  • needful
  • needfulness
  • neediness
  • oath
  • obligation
  • occasion
  • office
  • onus
  • ought
  • pact
  • paucity
  • pauperism
  • payment
  • pennilessness
  • penuriousness
  • penury
  • pinching
  • pine
  • pledge
  • plus
  • poorness
  • poverty
  • prearrangement
  • precondition
  • prerequisite
  • press
  • privation
  • promise
  • quest
  • rainy day
  • require
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • reservation
  • responsibility
  • restraint
  • right
  • scantiness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • setup
  • shall
  • shortage
  • should
  • sine qua non
  • skimpiness
  • stipulate
  • straitening
  • suffer privation
  • take
  • the urge
  • thirst
  • tribute
  • troth
  • trust
  • urgency
  • use
  • vow
  • want
  • warrant
  • weakness
  • will
  • wish
  • woe
  • word
  • wretchedness
  • yearn
  • yen for

want

  • absence
  • ache
  • admire
  • adore
  • appetite
  • appreciate
  • ask
  • aspire
  • austerity
  • bankruptcy
  • be deficient
  • be deprived of
  • be found wanting
  • be greedy
  • be insufficient
  • be poor
  • be short of
  • be without
  • bear
  • beg
  • beggary
  • belt-tightening
  • blankness
  • blemish
  • blot
  • call for
  • challenge
  • cherish
  • choose
  • claim
  • command
  • corruption
  • could do with
  • covet
  • crave
  • craving
  • crunch
  • dearth
  • decide
  • default
  • defect
  • deficiency
  • deficit
  • demand
  • demerit
  • depravity
  • deprivation
  • dereliction
  • desiderate
  • desire
  • destituteness
  • destitution
  • determine
  • dig
  • drought
  • drouth
  • emergency
  • emptiness
  • enjoin
  • enjoy
  • entail
  • essential
  • evil
  • exact
  • exigency
  • exiguousness
  • failing
  • failure
  • fall short in
  • famine
  • famishment
  • fancy
  • fault
  • favor
  • feel a need
  • feel like
  • feet of clay
  • flaw
  • foible
  • frailty
  • gutter
  • hanker
  • hankering
  • have a passion for
  • have a yen for
  • have ambition
  • have an urge for
  • have eyes for
  • have need of
  • hunger
  • immorality
  • impecuniosity
  • impecuniousness
  • imperfection
  • impoverishment
  • inadequacy
  • inadequateness
  • incline toward
  • indigence
  • insist
  • insolvency
  • insufficiency
  • involve
  • itch for
  • lack
  • lacuna
  • like
  • long
  • longing
  • loss
  • love
  • lust
  • meagerness
  • minus
  • misery
  • miss
  • necessitate
  • necessity
  • need
  • needfulness
  • neediness
  • nit
  • omission
  • paucity
  • pauperism
  • penuriousness
  • penury
  • pinch
  • pinching
  • pine
  • please
  • poorness
  • poverty
  • prefer
  • press
  • privation
  • prize
  • quest
  • rainy day
  • relish
  • require
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • resolve
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • scarceness
  • scarcity
  • shortage
  • shortcoming
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • skimpiness
  • soft spot
  • spoil for
  • spot
  • stain
  • stand in need of
  • starve
  • stipulate
  • straitening
  • take
  • thirst
  • treasure
  • undersupply
  • vacuity
  • vacuum
  • value
  • vice
  • void
  • warrant
  • weakness
  • welcome
  • wickedness
  • will
  • wish
  • woe
  • wretchedness
  • yearn
  • yearning
  • yen

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