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| English Dictionary: necessary |
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| 3 results for necessary |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- necessary
- adj
- absolutely essential
Antonym(s): unnecessary, unneeded
- unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
- 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"
Synonym(s): necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary
Antonym(s): inessential, nonessential
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Necessary \Nec"es*sa*ry\, a. [L. necessarius, from necesse
unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F.
n[82]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. [bd]'T is necessary he
should die.[b8] --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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Necessary \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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