Wherewithal vs Needful - What's the difference?
wherewithal | needful |
The ability and means required to accomplish some task.
* I would like to help your project, but I do not have the wherewithal .
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 15
, author=Felicity Cloake
, title=How to cook the perfect nut roast
, work=Guardian
* 1986 , , Penguin, paperback edition, page 67:
(archaic) In what way; how.
* 1662 , , Psalm 119:9,
Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensible.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
As nouns the difference between wherewithal and needful
is that wherewithal is the ability and means required to accomplish some task while needful is anything necessary or requisite.As a adverb wherewithal
is (archaic) in what way; how.As a adjective needful is
needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensible.wherewithal
English
Noun
citation, page= , passage=Christmas queen Mary Berry's aubergine five-nut roast, from her Christmas Collection, is, as the name suggests, rather more focused on the nut side of things. Breadcrumbs play second fiddle to a medley of almonds, Brazils, chestnuts, pine nuts and pistachios which, although tangy with lemon juice and garlic, is outrageously dense. A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control.}}
- "I just can't imagine," Philip said, "having that kind of self-knowledge, that kind of...wherewithal at fifteen.[...]"
Adverb
(-)- Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?
needful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful , and he would have none of it.