necessary
Meaning of necessary
adjective
- needed to be done, achieved, or present; essential.
they granted the necessary planning permission
it's not necessary for you to be here
- determined, existing, or happening by natural laws or predestination; inevitable.
a necessary consequence
- the basic requirements of life, such as food and warmth.
not merely luxuries, but also the common necessaries
poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life
late Middle English: from Latin necessarius, from necesse ‘be needful’.
Information about necessary
- The plural form of necessary is: necessaries.
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Hyphenation of necessary
nec-es-sary
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- necessary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
necessary synonyms
Meaning necessity:
necessity, essential, requirement, requisite
Meaning required by a legal, moral, or other rule; compulsory:
Meaning officially compulsory, or otherwise considered essential; indispensable:
Meaning required by law or a rule; obligatory:
Meaning required by law or mandate; compulsory:
Meaning of vital importance; crucial:
Meaning ask authoritatively or brusquely:
Meaning require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable:
Meaning necessary; requisite:
Meaning absolutely necessary:
Meaning absolutely necessary; essential:
Meaning necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility:
Meaning certain to happen; unavoidable:
Meaning not able to be avoided, prevented, or ignored; inevitable:
Meaning able to be firmly relied on to happen or be the case:
Meaning completely confident that one is right:
Meaning unable to be avoided or denied:
Meaning impossible to stop or prevent:
Meaning unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable:
Meaning be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way:
Meaning (of a person's future) regarded as developing as though according to a pre-existing plan:
Meaning established or decided in advance:
Meaning (of an outcome or course of events) determined in advance by divine will or fate:
Meaning (of an outcome or course of action) decided or determined beforehand; predestined:
necessary antonyms
Meaning not needed:
Meaning able to be replaced or done without; superfluous:
Meaning able to be done or achieved:
Translation of necessary
- German: notwendig, unverzichtbar, essenziell, unentbehrlich, unausweichlich, unentrinnbar, unvermeidlich, unumgänglich, unvermeidbar, unweigerlich, zwangsläufig, unabwendbar
- Italian: indispensabile, essenziale, inevitabile, necessario, imprescindibile
- Spanish: necesario, vital, imprescindible, obligatorio, esencial, indispensable, necesaria, obligatoria, inevitable, inexorable, ineludible
- French: nécessaire, essentiel, indispensable, inévitable, inexorable, inéluctable, immanquable, fatal
- Portuguese: essencial, imprescindível, inevitável, inexorável
Words that rhyme with necessary
lamasary, Cheboksary, falsary, caravansary, condensary, dispensary, responsary, Rosary, leprosary, rosary, sublapsary, adversary, anniversary, bursary, intertransversary, subanniversary, transversary, traversary, Janissary, accessary, assary, commissary, compromissary, confessary, emissary, equinecessary, fideicommissary, glossary, janissary, missary, nescessary, nonnecessary, pessary, polyglossary, promissary, seminecessary, subcommissary, unneccessary, unnecessary, innecessary, auntsary, apophysary, epiphysary
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