Thesaurus: necessary

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1. a. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
2. a. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
3. a. Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
4. n. 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.
5. n. A privy; a water-closet.
6. n. Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
7. adj. absolutely essential
8. adj. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances
9. n. anything indispensable
10. 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. 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.
11. Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and marriedwomen, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
12. j:99/n:1 a. absolutely essential s. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances