NECESSARY Definition & Meaning

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necessary

[ nes-uh-ser-ee ]

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adjective

essential, indispensable, or requisite:
The rotor is a necessary part of the motor.
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Antonyms:
happening or existing by necessity:
The snow has forced a necessary change in our plans.
acting or proceeding from compulsion or necessity; not free; involuntary:
a necessary agent.
Logic.
1. (of a proposition) such that a denial of it involves a self-contradiction.
2. (of an inference or argument) such that its conclusion cannot be false if its supporting premises are true.
3. (of a condition) such that it must exist if a given event is to occur or a given thing is to exist. Compare sufficient ( def 2 ).

noun

plural necessaries.

something necessary or required for a particular purpose; necessity.
Synonyms: , ,
necessaries, Law. food, clothing, etc., required by a dependent person and varying with their social or economic position or that of the person upon whom they are dependent.
Chiefly New England. a privy or toilet.

necessary

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adjective

needed to achieve a certain desired effect or result; required
resulting from necessity; inevitable
the necessary consequences of your action
logic
1. (of a statement, formula, etc) true under all interpretations or in all possible circumstances
2. (of a proposition) determined to be true by its meaning, so that its denial would be self-contradictory
3. (of a property) essential, so that without it its subject would not be the entity it is
4. (of an inference) always yielding a true conclusion when its premises are true; valid
5. (of a condition) entailed by the truth of some statement or the obtaining of some state of affairs Compare sufficient
philosophy (in a nonlogical sense) expressing a law of nature, so that if it is in this sense necessary that all As are B, even although it is not contradictory to conceive of an A which is not B, we are licensed to infer that if something were an A it would have to be B
rare.
compelled, as by necessity or law; not free

noun

the necessary informal.
the money required for a particular purpose
do the necessary informal.
to do something that is necessary in a particular situation

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of necessary¹

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English necessarie, from Latin �Ա𳦱��ܲ� “unavoidable, inevitable, needful,” equivalent to necess(e) (neuter indeclinable adjective) “unavoidable, necessary” + -��ܲ� -ary

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of necessary¹

C14: from Latin �Ա𳦱��ܲ� indispensable, from necesse unavoidable

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Synonym Study

Necessary, essential, indispensable, requisite indicate something vital for the fulfillment of a need. Necessary applies to something without which a condition cannot be fulfilled or to an inevitable consequence of certain events, conditions, etc.: Food is necessary to life. Multiplicity is a necessary result of division. Indispensable applies to something that cannot be done without or removed from the rest of a unitary condition: Food is indispensable to living things. He made himself indispensable as a companion. Something that is essential forms a vitally necessary condition of something: Air is essential to red-blooded animals. It is essential to understand the matter clearly. Requisite applies to what is thought necessary to fill out, complete, or perfect something: She had all the requisite qualifications for a position.

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