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needed

adjectiveverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈniː.dɪd//
  • United States//ˈni.dɪd//

Necessary; being required.

adjective

  1. 1

    Necessary; being required.

    A much-needed rest.

    Just-in-time as-needed support for in-house training

    And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...

Etymology

From need + -ed. The adjective is derived from the verb.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of needsimple past and past participle of need

Forms

comparative
more needed
superlative
most needed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).