Necessary

Quick meaning: Necessary is an adjective meaning Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.

Meaning

Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.

More Meanings

1. Unavoidable, inevitable.
2. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
3. (obsolete) Necessity.
4. (chiefly UK, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, archaic, euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.

Example Sentences

It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.

1.Sen. ...The faults Bloody: 'Tis necessary he should dye: Nothing imboldens sinne so much, as Mercy.

Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.

If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.

Word Forms

• necessarier
• necessariest
• necessaries
• necessarys

Synonyms for necessary

Depending on context, synonyms include basic, essential, indispensable, necessar, needed, prerequisite.

Antonyms for necessary

Common opposites include unnecessary, evitable, incidental, impossible, inessential, nonessential.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include requisite, necessity, requirement, needful, needed, essential.

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