Necessary and Rational

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Necessary

Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
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Rational and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rational" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily

Rational

Rational adjective - Having the ability to reason.
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Necessary and rational are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Necessary" instead an adjective "Rational".
Nearby Words: ration, rationalize, rationale, rationalise, rationality

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  • Film / X-Men: Apocalypse Well-Intentioned Extremist: Word of God is that the film will take great pains to demonstrate why Apocalypse views his genocidal actions as rational and necessary.
    Source: Film / X-Men: Apocalypse
  • Scatterbrained Senior This is troubling to the heroes, because while Yu is just as evil and megalomaniacal as any other System Lord, he was at least rational and pragmatic compared to the outright psychosis of his fellows, and thus could be counted on for an Enemy Mine situation when it was necessary.
    Source: Scatterbrained Senior
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