requisite

adjective

req·​ui·​site ˈre-kwə-zət 

: needed for a particular purpose : essential, necessary

has the requisite skills/knowledge/experience for the job

… the bill was ultimately pulled after it became clear it would not get the requisite number of votes needed to pass the House …

—Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Classic Korean dishes, such as braised short ribs and meat dumplings, would be set out alongside the requisite [Thanksgiving] turkey and mashed potatoes.

—Martha Fay

Politics, to one degree or another, are a requisite part of committee work …

—Angela D. Thompsell

requisite noun

plural requisites

For my part, I have never seen why a Ph.D. should be a requisite for college-level teaching.

—Andrew Hacker

requisiteness noun

… the moral optimality of their conduct does not eliminate the wrongness of what they have done or the requisiteness of legal sanctions in response.

—Matthew H. Kramer

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Ask Us About Requisite

Acquiring an understanding of where requisite comes from won't require a formal inquiry. Without question, the quest begins with the Latin verb quaerere, which means "to ask" or "to seek." That word is ancestor to a number of English words, including acquire, require, inquiry, question, quest, and, of course, requisite. From quaerere came requirere, meaning "to ask again." Repeated requests can express a need, and the past participle of the Latin word requirere, which is requisitus, came to mean "needed" or "necessary." English acquired requisite when it was adopted into Middle English back in the 1400s.

Synonyms

• all-important
• critical
• essential
• imperative
• indispensable
• integral
• must-have
• necessary
• necessitous
• needed
• needful
• required
• vital

Examples of requisite in a Sentence

this new CD is the requisite album of the year for classical music lovers

Recent Examples on the Web

Whereas Abramović was ready to embrace the life of a world-famous art star—with its requisite duties and attendant inconveniences—Ulay longed to live a more itinerant and anarchist existence. —Michael I. Norton, TIME, 11 Apr. 2024

Experts told The Washington Post that anyone who followed the requisite safety tips and used proper solar eclipse glasses to view Monday’s spectacle should feel reassured that their eyes escaped any serious harm. —Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024

Scattered in there will be a handful of big movies and requisite awards contenders. —Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Apr. 2024

Scores of Americans are making special plans for the day, from flying across the country to driving across town, ready to don their requisite glasses, look up at the sky and admire a phenomenon the U.S. won't see again for another 20 years. —Rachel Treisman, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024

The park will undergo renovations to install the requisite upgrades needed to host an MLB team. —Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024

This includes requisite features like a multi-model architecture to leverage the best available LLMs, a high capacity for flexibility to incorporate your business logic, and an enterprise level of scalability and security. —Gadi Shamia, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024

As this is a popstar style dissection, there are the requisite bodysuits to discuss. —Alice Newbold, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024

But the Brazilian government dealt with these things through a patchwork of federal bureaucracies and police agencies, with no force that had both the requisite scientific knowledge and military-style training. —Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin requisitus, past participle of requirere

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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Kids Definition

requisite

adjective

req·​ui·​site ˈrek-wə-zət 

: needed for reaching a goal or achieving a purpose

requisite noun

requisiteness noun