Necessary

Adjective

 * 1) needed, required

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:requisite

Antonyms

 * unnecessary

Derived terms

 * necessarily
 * necessary condition

Related terms

 * necessariness
 * necessitate
 * necessitation
 * necessitousness
 * necessitude
 * necessity

Noun

 * 1)  bathroom, toilet, loo

Thesaurus
absolute, apodictic, backhouse, binding, bound, called for, cardinal, certain, choiceless, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, closet, compelling, compulsory, conclusive, constraining, crapper, de rigueur, decisive, definite, determinate, dictated, essential, exigent, fated, fateful, fundamental, imperative, imperious, important, importunate, indefeasible, indicated, indispensable, ineluctable, ineludible, inerrable, inerrant, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, infallible, inflexible, involuntary, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, irresistible, irrevocable, jakes, mandatory, momentous, must, necessitous, needed, needful, obligatory, office, outhouse, peremptory, perfectly sure, positive, predestined, predetermined, prerequisite, relentless, required, requisite, resistless, significant, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, sure-enough, true, unambiguous, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unequivocal, unerring, unevadable, unforgoable, univocal, unmistakable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding, urgent, vital, wanted, without choice

Etymology
< necessarye: <  necessaire: <  necessarius: < necesse:, neuter adjective with esse: and habeo:, probably originating from ne cessum: or non cessum: < ne: + cessus:, perfect passive participle of cedo:; see cede.

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Arabic: ضروري,
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 必要
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: välttämätön, tähdellinen, tärkeä, tarvittava
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hindi: ज़रूरी
 * Hungarian:, szükségszerű, nélkülözhetetlen, elengedhetetlen
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: necesse


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 必要な
 * Korean: 필요
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: nesesari
 * Persian: لازم, ضروری
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అవసరమైన (avasaramaina), కావాల్సిన
 * Urdu:
 * Volapük: zesüdik