English adjective: necessary | |||
1. | necessary absolutely essential | ||
Similar | essential, incumbent, indispensable, needed, needful, obligatory, required, requisite | ||
See also | essential, indispensable, obligatory | ||
Attribute | necessity | ||
Antonyms | unnecessary, unneeded | ||
2. | necessary unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | ||
Samples | The necessary consequences of one's actions. | ||
Similar | inevitable | ||
Antonyms | avertable, avertible, avoidable, evitable | ||
English noun: necessary | |||
1. | necessary (object) anything indispensable | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | essential, necessity, requirement, requisite | ||
Broader (hypernym) | thing | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | desideratum, must, need, want | ||
Antonyms | inessential, nonessential | ||