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needed meaning

EN[ˈniːdɪd]
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    Definition of needed in English Dictionary

  • VerbSUF-ed
    1. simple past tense and past participle of need.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore neededSUPmost needed
      1. Necessary; being required.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • When planning the boat trip we had completely forgotten that we needed somebody to steer.
          • The brush is needed to whisk eraser dust away. The chief advantage of this eraser is that it may be sharpened to a point to erase a very small area.
          • A nation on the move needed a space age motif to express its enthusiasm.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • However, we cannot reach conclusions on the role of betatrophin in glucose and lipid metabolism process based on the present results and further studies will still be needed.
          • The girl sleuth in a retro-pomo pop-culture winkfest that has everything but a good mystery, which was all it needed.
          • A possible application may be found in diffuse meningiomatosis but further confirmations are needed.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Morphemes
            • Suffixes
              • Words by suffix
                • Words suffixed with -ed
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
                • Participles
                  • Past participles
                  • Verb simple past forms

              Other Vocabulary

              Look-Alike Words
              1. en reeded
              2. en neede
              3. en weeded
              4. en needes
              5. en neesed
              Source: Wiktionary

              Meaning of needed for the defined word.

              Grammatically, this word "needed" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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