Canadian English Meaning of necessary

necessary

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Definitions and Meaning of necessary in English

Wordnet

necessary (n)

anything indispensable

Wordnet

necessary (a)

absolutely essential

Wordnet

necessary (s)

unavoidably determined by prior circumstances

Webster

necessary (a.)

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

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

Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

Webster

necessary (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.

A privy; a water-closet.

Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

FAQs About the word necessary

necessary

anything indispensable, absolutely essential, unavoidably determined by prior circumstancesSuch as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevi

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discretionary,elective,optional,unnecessary,voluntary,unimportant,unwanted,chosen,Dispensable,Inconsequential

necessariness => necessity, necessarily => necessarily, necessaries => essentials, necessarianism => necessarianism, necessarian => necessary,