About The Word Necessary
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Necessary
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What's The Definition Of Necessary?
[n] anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
[adj] unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions" [adj] absolutely essential Synonyms | Synonyms for Necessary: essential | essential | indispensable | inevitable | necessity | needed | needful | obligatory | required | requirement | requisite | requisite Related Terms | Find terms related to Necessary: 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 | definite | determinate | dictated | essential | exigent | fated | fateful | fundamental | imperative | imperious | important | importunate | indefeasible | indicated | indispensable | ineluctable | ineludible | inerrable | inerrant | inescapable | inevasible | inevitable | inexorable | infallible | inflexible | involuntary | irreducible | irreductible | irreplaceable | irresistible | irrevocable | jakes | mandatory | momentous | must | necessitous | needed | needful | obligatory | office | outhouse | peremptory | perfectly sure | positive | predestined | predetermined | prerequisite | relentless | required | requisite | resistless | significant | sure | sure as death | sure as fate | sure-enough | true | unambiguous | unavoidable | uncontrollable | undeflectable | unequivocal | unerring | unevadable | unforgoable | univocal | unmistakable | unpreventable | unstoppable | unyielding | urgent | vital | wanted | without choice See Also | desideratum | entity | need | physical thing | want Necessary In Webster's Dictionary \Nec"es*sa*ry\, a. [L. necessarius, from necesse
unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F.
n['e]cessaire.]
1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be
avoided; inevitable.
Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
--Shak.
2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with,
without preventing the attainment of a desired result;
indispensable; requiste; essential. ``'T is necessary he
should die.'' --Shak.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the
pleasure and quiet of our minds. --Tillotson.
3. Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; --
opposed to {free}; as, whether man is a necessary or a
free agent is a question much discussed.
\Nec"es*sa*ry\, n.; pl. {Necessaries}. 1. A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life. 2. A privy; a water-closet. 3. pl. (Law) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station. |
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