NECESSARY


Meaning of NECESSARY in English

I. ||necessary noun

Synonyms: privy 1, backhouse, ||biffy, ||closet, *crapper, jakes, ||office, outhouse

II. necessary adjective

1.

Synonyms: essential 4, imperative, indispensable, necessitous, prerequisite

Related Word: compelling, compulsory, constraining, mandatory, obligatory; important, momentous, significant; cardinal, fundamental

Contrasted words: insignificant, unessential, unimportant

Antonyms: unnecessary

2.

Synonyms: inevitable , certain, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, returnless, unavoidable, unescapable, unevadable

Related Word: inerrable, inerrant, infallible, unerring

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