Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

needment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: need-ment
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something needed or wanted.

Archaic

noun

outfit; necessary luggage

Archaic

Example Sentences

"His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind, His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind"
"We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief"
"Rarely, indeed, did it occur to this man of great resource to enter a shop like anyone else and pay down at the counter what was demanded. His domestic supplies of food and liquor, his clothing, his casual needments, were all procured through irregular channels, by the exercise of wonder-craft, experience, and audacity."

Etymology

From need + -ment.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: need

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

needments (plural)

Synonyms

must necessity

Questions

What does needment mean?: Something needed or wanted.
Where does needment come from?: From need + -ment.

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