'Needs' definitions:
Definition of 'needs'
(from WordNet)
adverb
In such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs]
Definition of 'Needs'
From: GCIDE
- Needs \Needs\, adv. [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. -wards.] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need. [1913 Webster]
- A man must needs love mauger his head. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- And he must needs go through Samaria. --John iv. 4. [1913 Webster]
- He would needs know the cause of his repulse. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]