Major
Necessary
Necessary adjective - Impossible to do without.
Usage example: food and water are necessary for survival
Major and necessary are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Major" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Additionally, many of the Senators argued that the nation had gone through enough lately and that such a major change in leadership wasn't necessary.
Source: Useful Notes / Andrew Johnson -
Peter Arnett quoted a United States major as saying, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
Source: Start X to Stop X - Every chapter title is a Latin word, and one of the major gangs is Necessarius Lat. "necessary".
Source: Altum Videtur
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