neededly

Adverb

neededly (comparative more neededly, superlative most neededly)

1. (rare) In a needed manner; necessarily.
   • If all this seems like a vaporings of a diseased imagination, too monstrous and too improbably for belief, only see how the ascending series of events, as steps in a stairway from basement to top story, mounts up, one after another, in neededly progressive order, from the outset toward the purposed...1888, Oliver Morell Babcock, The New Conspiracy!, H. Bailey & Company, page 6
   • What it all amounted to, at any rate, was that Mrs. Assingham would be keeping him quiet now, while his wife and his father-in-law carried out their own little frugal picnic; quite moreover, doubtless, not much less neededly in respect to the members of the circle that were with them there than in...1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, page 114

   Antonyms:

   unneededly