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.
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2. A privy; a water-closet.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Necessary \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.
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Death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. --Shak.
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2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with,
without preventing the attainment of a desired result;
indispensable; requisite; essential. "'T is necessary he
should die." --Shak.
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A certain kind of temper is necessary to the
pleasure and quiet of our minds. --Tillotson.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
necessary
adj 1: absolutely essential [ant: unnecessary]
2: 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" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement,
requisite] [ant: inessential]
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "necessary":
absolute, apodictic, backhouse, binding, bound, called for,
cardinal, certain, choiceless, clear, clear and distinct,
clear as day, closet, compelling, compulsory, conclusive,
constraining, crapper, de rigueur, decisive, definite, determinate,
dictated, essential, exigent, fated, fateful, fundamental,
imperative, imperious, important, importunate, indefeasible,
indicated, indispensable, ineluctable, ineludible, inerrable,
inerrant, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable,
infallible, inflexible, involuntary, irreducible, irreductible,
irreplaceable, irresistible, irrevocable, jakes, mandatory,
momentous, must, necessitous, needed, needful, obligatory, office,
outhouse, peremptory, perfectly sure, positive, predestined,
predetermined, prerequisite, relentless, required, requisite,
resistless, significant, sure, sure as death, sure as fate,
sure-enough, true, unambiguous, unavoidable, uncontrollable,
undeflectable, unequivocal, unerring, unevadable, unforgoable,
univocal, unmistakable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding,
urgent, vital, wanted, without choice
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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