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necessary
adj., adv. 1) essential. 2) less forcefully, it can mean convenient, useful, or making good sense.
necessary
(Inescapable), adjective avoidless, certain, choiceless, compelling, constraining, decided, decreed, designated, destined, expected, fated, fateful, fixed, imminent, impending, ineluctable, ineludible, inexorable, irresistible, irrevocable, ordained, sealed, settled, sure, unalterable, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeniable, unevasible, unpreventableAssociated concepts: necessary damages, necessary exxenses, necessary implication, necessary inference, necessary injury
necessary
(Required), adjective all-important, basic, binding, bounden, chief, coercive, compelling, critical, crucial, demanded, dictated, essential, expedient, fundamental, imperative, important, incumbent, indispensable, integral, key, mandatory, necessitated, necessitous, needed, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, prescribed, prime, principal, requisite, significant, strategic, strategical, substantive, urgent, vitalAssociated concepts: necessary parties
necessary
noun essence, essential, essentiality, innispensable thing, necessitas, necessitousness, necessitude, necessity, need, prerequirement, prerequisite, qualification, requirement, requisite, vitalsAssociated concepts: duty to provide necessaries, necessaries of life
See also: basic, binding, cardinal, central, compelling, compulsory, desideratum, essential, exigent, fundamental, imperative, important, indispensable, inevitable, integral, mandatory, material, need, obligatory, peremptory, primary, requirement, requisite, unavoidable, urgent