Definitions for: Necessary


[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"
[adj] unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
[adj] absolutely essential



Webster (1913) Definition: Nec"es*sa*ry, a. [L. necessarius, from necesse
unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F.
n['e]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. ``'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.


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.

Synonyms: essential, essential, indispensable, inevitable, necessity, needed, needful, obligatory, required, requirement, requisite, requisite

Antonyms: inessential, nonessential, unnecessary, unneeded

See Also: desideratum, entity, need, physical thing, want

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