necessary

1. a. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Source: opted

2. a. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. n. A privy; a water-closet. Source: opted

6. n. Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station. Source: opted

7. adj. absolutely essential Source: wordnet

8. adj. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances Source: wordnet

9. n. anything indispensable Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

11. Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and marriedwomen, as are requisite for support suitable to station. Source: adambom

12. j:99/n:1 a. absolutely essential s. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances Source: ecdict

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