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necessary

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of necessary

1 forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law

  • an emissions test is necessary before you can renew the registration for your car
Synonyms of necessary

compulsory, forced, imperative, incumbent, involuntary, mandatory, nonelective, obligatory, peremptory, required
Words Related to necessary

all-important, essential, indispensable, needed, requisite

insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent

demanded, enforced

coercive
Near Antonyms of necessary

chosen, discretionary

dispensable, unnecessary, unneeded, unwanted

inconsequential, insignificant, nonessential, unimportant
Antonyms of necessary

elective, optional, voluntary

2 impossible to avoid or evade

  • taxes will always be a necessary evil
Synonyms of necessary

certain, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevitable, sure, unavoidable, unescapable
Words Related to necessary

decided, definite, settled

likely, possible, probable

destined, fated, foreordained, predestined, predetermined, preordained

inexorable, relentless, unremitting, unstoppable
Phrases Synonymous with necessary

in the bag, in the cards (also on the cards)
Near Antonyms of necessary

preventable (also preventible)

doubtful, dubious, questionable, shaky, unclear

undecided, unsettled

undependable, unreliable

improbable, unlikely
Antonyms of necessary

avoidable, evadable, uncertain, unsure

3 impossible to do without

  • food and water are necessary for survival
Synonyms of necessary

all-important, critical, essential, imperative, indispensable, integral, must-have, necessitous, needed, needful, required, requisite, vital
Words Related to necessary

prerequisite

compulsory, mandatory, nonelective, obligatory

consequential, crucial, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, weighty

basic, central, fundamental, key, organic

insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent
Phrases Synonymous with necessary

of the essence
Near Antonyms of necessary

undesired, unwanted

inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant

excess, external, extra, extraneous, superfluous, surplus
Antonyms of necessary

dispensable, inessential, needless, nonessential, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded

necessary

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of necessary

something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable

  • a modest income that provided the family with only the necessaries of life
Synonyms of necessary

condition, demand, essential, must, must-have, necessity, need, needful, requirement, requisite, sine qua non
Words Related to necessary

precondition, prerequisite

advantage, edge, plus

desideration, desideratum, wish
Near Antonyms of necessary

amenity, comfort, extra, extravagance, frill, indulgence, luxury, superfluity, surplus, surplusage
Antonyms of necessary

nonessential, nonnecessity

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