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necessary

[nes-uh-ser-ee]

adjective

  1. essential, indispensable, or requisite.

    The rotor is a necessary part of the motor.

    Synonyms:
    Antonyms:

  2. happening or existing by necessity.

    The snow has forced a necessary change in our plans.

  3. acting or proceeding from compulsion or necessity; not free; involuntary.

    a necessary agent.

  4. Logic.Ìý

    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.

noun

plural

necessaries 

  1. something necessary or required for a particular purpose; necessity.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. Law.Ìýnecessaries, 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.

  3. Chiefly New England.Ìýa privy or toilet.

necessary

/ ˈ²ÔÉ›²õɪ²õÉ™°ùɪ /

adjective

  1. needed to achieve a certain desired effect or result; required

  2. resulting from necessity; inevitable

    the necessary consequences of your action

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. rareÌýcompelled, as by necessity or law; not free

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. informalÌýthe money required for a particular purpose

  2. informalÌýto do something that is necessary in a particular situation

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • necessariness noun
  • quasi-necessary adjective
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of necessary1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English necessarie, from Latin ²Ô±ð³¦±ð²õ²õÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ “unavoidable, inevitable, needful,†equivalent to necess(e) (neuter indeclinable adjective) “unavoidable, necessary†+ -Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ -ary
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of necessary1

C14: from Latin ²Ô±ð³¦±ð²õ²õÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ 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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After several days of missile exchanges between Israel and Iran, Baier was critical of Netanyahu's assertion that his "preemptive strike" was necessary.

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"But the prime minister wanted to assure himself he was doing everything that was necessary, which is why he asked Baroness Casey to do this rapid review," she added.

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Then, at a congressional hearing on Thursday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to suggest under tense questioning that the Pentagon had prepared "contingency" plans for taking Greenland by force "if necessary".

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He added that Baroness Casey had originally thought a new inquiry was not necessary, but she had changed her mind having looked into it in recent months.

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However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the operation was necessary to "roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival".

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