Definition of Necessary

1. Noun. Anything indispensable. "A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

Exact synonyms: Essential, Necessity, Requirement, Requisite
Generic synonyms: Thing
Specialized synonyms: Desideratum, Must, Need, Want
Derivative terms: Essential, Necessitate, Necessitous, Require, Requisite
Antonyms: Inessential

2. Adjective. Absolutely essential.

3. Adjective. Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances. "The necessary consequences of one's actions"
Similar to: Inevitable

Definition of Necessary

1. a. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

2. n. A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.

Definition of Necessary

1. Adjective. needed, required ¹

2. Noun. (archaic British) bathroom, toilet, loo ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Necessary

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Medical Definition of Necessary

1. 1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. "Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come." (Shak) 2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. "'T is necessary he should die." "A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds." (Tillotson) 3. Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed. Origin: L. Necessarius, from necesse unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F. Necessaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Necessary

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Literary usage of Necessary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"It would be well that the child, by exercising the motor channels of articulate language should establish exactly the movements necessary to a perfect ..."

2. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"It follows that something that is absolutely necessary must exist, ... But this necessary * Objectively, time, as the formal condition of the possibility of ..."

3. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"We must brace ourselves to do what is necessary. It is I who have been in fault : I ... I have made necessary arrangements, and they must be carried out. ..."

4. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"and sometimes, in one sweep of an instant, described an arc of more than forty-five degrees, bringing up with a sudden jerk, which made it necessary to hold ..."

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