Critical
Required
Required adjective - Impossible to do without.
Usage example: with these frigid winds, hats, scarves, and good mittens are required equipment for heading outside
Critical and required are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Critical" instead an adjective "Required".
Nearby Words: requirement, requiring
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- momentous and critical
- momentous and required
- important and critical
- important and required
- necessary and critical
- necessary and required
- essential and critical
- essential and required
- imperative and critical
- imperative and required
- indispensable and critical
- indispensable and required
- requisite and critical
- requisite and required
Both words in one sentence
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This comes in two varieties - the first and original was the ability for crafters to "name" what they made if they achieved critical success or crafted some item that required a rare ingredient.
- While it was a critical and financial success, the work required to create and mix two compact discs' worth of material caused tensions within the band.
Source: Creator Killer / Music -
Unassuming but firm, he's cool on many levels; he's calm and collected, exactly what is required when time is at the essence, makes critical, unprecedented and right decisions on his feet and never fails to be assertive but polite.
Source: The Captain
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