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necessary
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necessary
adj.
vital; essential; indispensable; unavoidable
n.
something that is essential or imperative; essentials of life (food, clothing, and shelter)
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Necessary
Necessary or necessity may refer to:
- Need
- An action somebody may feel they must do
- An important task or essential thing to do at a particular time or by a particular moment
- Necessary and sufficient condition, in logic, something that is a required condition for something else to be the case
- Necessary truth, in logic, something that cannot fail to be true
- Necessity, in criminal law
- A bathroom or toilet, in some languages (in English this is an archaic usage)
- An economic need enunciated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 Second Bill of Rights
- A necessity in contract law
- Necessary Records, UK record label
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necessary
Noun
1. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
(synonym) necessity, essential, requirement, requisite
(hypernym) thing
(hyponym) desideratum
Adjective
1. absolutely essential
(antonym) unnecessary, unneeded
(similar) essential, indispensable
(see-also) essential
(attribute) necessity
2. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"
(similar) inevitable
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necessary
příd.jm.
nutný
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necessary
Przym.
konieczny; potrzebny; nieodzowny
