Material and Necessary

Material

Material adjective - Relating to or composed of matter.

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

Necessary adjective - Impossible to do without.

Usage example: food and water are necessary for survival

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

Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily

live	live material	live necessary
good	good material	good necessary
pure	pure material	pure necessary
common	common material	common necessary
Other adjectives: big, bad, excellent, new, different.

They're trying to find out just how much of the material body is necessary for a human to survive.

Source: Torture Technician
Their material was not strictly composed of recognizable electronic instruments; they would use any sound they deemed necessary.

Source: Industrial
But then again, when you live in a world where battles with the Legions of Hell aren't even headline material anymore, the "bad" comes across more like "harsh but necessary".

Source: The Extremist Was Right

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