Good and Necessary

Good

Good adjective - Based on sound reasoning or information.

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Necessary and good are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Necessary" instead an adjective "Good".

Nearby Words: goodness, goodly, goody

Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.

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Good and necessary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Good" instead an adjective "Necessary".

Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily

good	good good	good necessary
pure	pure good	pure necessary
common	common good	common necessary
simple	simple good	simple necessary
Other adjectives: powerful, real, big, bad, new.

Something of an inversion; he uses this, not as evidence that suffering is good and necessary, but that Humans Are Flawed for needing it.

Source: Misery Builds Character
That said, therapy and counseling services are generally portrayed as a good and necessary resource, and the psych staff are genuinely interested in their clients' well-being.

Source: Therapy Is for the Weak
Javi in Negation goes through this after Charon brought him back from the dead and convinced him that his conquest of the Negation-verse and his pending invasion of the main CrossGen universe was a good and necessary thing.

Source: Face Heel Turn / Comic Books

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