Necessary
Necessary adjective - Impossible to do without.
Usage example: food and water are necessary for survival
Necessitous and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Necessitous" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily
Necessitous
Necessitous adjective - Impossible to do without.
Usage example: all the dreaded, necessitous decisions that one must make when arranging the funeral of a loved one
Necessary and necessitous are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Necessary" instead an adjective "Necessitous".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessitated
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- critical and necessary
- critical and necessitous
- needed and necessary
- needed and necessitous
- mandatory and necessary
- mandatory and necessitous
- essential and necessary
- essential and necessitous
- required and necessary
- required and necessitous
- imperative and necessary
- imperative and necessitous
- indispensable and necessary
- indispensable and necessitous
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