necessary
About 155.82 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
- adjective Unavoidable, inevitable.
If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
- adjective Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
- noun A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
- noun Necessity.
Similar words
requisite necessity requirement needful needed essential required obligatory indispensable inevitable
Often followed by
to for in that and condition or if because
Word family
necessaries
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