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necessary

noun

1 necessary

Anything indispensable.

synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite.

Roget 191: receptacle; inclosure etc. 232; recipient, receiver, reservatory.    compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, ... show more

Dutch: vereiste

adjective

1 necessary

Absolutely essential.

Roget 601: necessary, needful etc. (requisite) 630.    fated; destined etc. v.; elect; spellbound compulsory etc. (compel) 744; ... show more

Roget 630: required etc. v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request.    urgent, ... show more

Roget 478: demonstrating etc. v., demonstrative, demonstrable; probative, unanswerable, conclusive; apodictic, apodeictic, apodeictical; irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable; ... show more

Polish: niezbędny, konieczny, niezastąpiony, nieodzowny

2 necessary

Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances.


Moby thesaurus: absolute, apodictic, backhouse, binding, bound, called for, cardinal, certain, choiceless, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, closet, compelling, compulsory, conclusive, constraining, crapper, de rigueur, decisive ... show more.

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necessaries

noun

Roget 601: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination.    necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion etc. ... show more

Roget 630: requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.    needfulness, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: bare necessities, call for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, essential, essentials, indispensable, must, must item, necessities, necessity, need, need for, occasion, prerequirement, prerequisite, requirement, requisite ... show more.

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