NECESSARY
\nˈɛsəsəɹi], \nˈɛsəsəɹi], \n_ˈɛ_s_ə_s_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of NECESSARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
By Princeton University
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unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
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Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
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Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
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A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
By Oddity Software
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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
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Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
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Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
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A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
By Noah Webster.
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That can not be otherwise; not to be done without; essential; indispensable; as, food is necessary to life; not to be avoided.
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A thing which can not be done without.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Needful: unavoidable: indispensable: not free.
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A requisite-used chiefly in pl.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Being such that it must exist, occur, or be true; essential; unavoidable.
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Something necessary; an essential requisite.
By James Champlin Fernald
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That must be or cannot be otherwise; indispensable; essential; inevitable; acting from necessity.
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Something necessary; a domestic convenience.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That cannot be otherwise; inevitable; essential; acting from necessity or compulsion; decisive by logical consequences.
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Something indispensable; an essential.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
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