Positive
Required
Required adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Positive and required are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Positive" instead an adjective "Required".
Nearby Words: requirement, requiring
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In a case of Flip-Flop of God being a positive thing, Nintendo patched the exploits so now they no longer work and the patch is required to play online.
Source: Game Breaker / Racing - Davan in Something*Positive originally worked in a Medicaid billing department, which required him to send crushingly expensive ambulance bills to people below the poverty line.
Source: Punch Clock Villain / Web Comics - The necessity of resting may be enforced by characters suffering from negative status effects ("Tired", "Sleepy", etc.) after staying up for a while or by it being required to Level Up; alternatively, resting may confer temporary positive status effects for a short while.
Source: Resting Recovery
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Required and Positive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/positive/required
Positive & Required. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/positive/required>.
Required or Positive. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/positive/required.
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