necessary

  • (a) absolutely essential
  • (s) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances
    • the necessary consequences of one's actions

Nouns

  • (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
    essential, requisite, necessity, requirement,

Synonyms

essential requisite necessity requirement

Antonyms

unnecessary unneeded inessential nonessential

See also

essential indispensable obligatory

Words of close approximity