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necessary

adjective

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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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