Important
Required
Required adjective - Impossible to do without.
Usage example: with these frigid winds, hats, scarves, and good mittens are required equipment for heading outside
Important and required are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Important" instead an adjective "Required".
Nearby Words: requirement, requiring
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- critical and important
- critical and required
- principal and important
- principal and required
- momentous and important
- momentous and required
- necessary and important
- necessary and required
- essential and important
- essential and required
- imperative and important
- imperative and required
- indispensable and important
- indispensable and required
Both words in one sentence
- This ability is used during one important and required space battle.
Source: Lazy Backup - Sometimes all that's required is a good old primal scream and focusing on what's important, really, really hard with a lot of emotion.
Source: Mana - Researching the Sonic Pistol is tremendously important, because it's both the best assault weapon in the game, and a required prerequisite for the Sonic Oscillator, the best craft weapon.
Source: Lost Forever
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