necessary

[NecĀ·es*sa*ry]

Everyone can agree that certain things are necessary for survival: food, water, shelter. Some people might add chocolate to that list. Necessary refers to anything you can't do without.

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

Noun
anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"

Adjective S.
unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one''s actions"

Adjective
absolutely essential


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

a.
Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.

a.
Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

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.

n.
A privy; a water-closet.

n.
Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.


Necessary

Nec"es*sa*ry , a. [L. necessarius, from necesse unavoidable, necessary; of uncertain origin: cf. F. n'82cessaire.] 1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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." Shak.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
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.

Necessary

Nec"es*sa*ry, n.; pl. Necessaries . 1. 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. 2. A privy; a water-closet. 3. pl. (Law) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

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

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.

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Usage Examples

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

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Other Usage Examples

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.

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