Necessary
['nesəs(ə)rɪ] or ['nɛsəsɛri]
Definition
(adj.) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; 'the necessary consequences of one's actions' .
(adj.) absolutely essential .
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
(a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
(a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A privy; a water-closet.
(n.) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Typed by Geoffrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inevitable, unavoidable, that must be, not to be avoided.[2]. Requisite, essential, indispensable, needful, that cannot be spared.[3]. Involuntary, not free.
n. [1]. Requisite, requirement, necessity, essential, indispensable thing, SINE QUA NON.[2]. Privy, jakes, water-closet, back-house.
Edited by Jeanne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Certain, inevitable, indispensable, requisite, essential, compulsory, needful,expedient
ANT:Contingent, casual, optional, discretional, unnecessary, unessential, free
Checked by Brits
Definition
adj. that must be: that cannot be otherwise: unavoidable: indispensable: under compulsion: not free.—n. that which cannot be left out or done without (food &c.)—used chiefly in pl.: a privy.—ns. Necessā′rian one who holds the doctrine of necessity; Necessā′rianism the doctrine that the will is not free but subject to causes without which determine its action.—adv. Nec′essarily.—n. Nec′essariness the state or quality of being necessary.—Necessary truths such as cannot but be true.
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Examples
- Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. Plato. The Republic.
- That is a State secret of the utmost importance, and I fear that I cannot tell you, nor do I see that it is necessary. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Although carbon dioxide is very injurious to health, both of the substances of which it is composed are necessary to life. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the long run, the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He spoke of the state of England; the necessary measures to be taken to ensure its security, and confirm its prosperity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No, the lack is something to be made up for by the introduction of still another study, or, if necessary, another kind of school. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was therefore from the beginning a divided thing of uncertain power, a claim and an argument rather than a necessary reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In this place I may as well jot down a chapter concerning those necessary nuisances, European guides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I will tell her all that is necessary to what may comparatively be called, your justification. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- To send abroad any great quantity of it, therefore, would be to send abroad a part of the necessary subsistence of the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is only necessary then to open one or the other of these latter to cause the appearance or disappearance or transformation of such objects as have been inclosed within it. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sam put a few necessaries in a carpet-bag, and was ready for starting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Taxes upon the necessaries of life are much higher in many other countries than in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A peasant would think himself happy in what cannot afford necessaries for a gentleman. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He leaves me alone and without sufficient money for common necessaries. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Whether taxes upon the necessaries of life, such as those in Great Britain upon soap, salt, leather, candles, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Consumable commodities, whether necessaries or luxuries, may be taxed in two different ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was not however money, except partially, but the necessaries of life, that became scarce. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Consumable commodities are either necessaries or luxuries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Of all my worldly possessions I took no more than the few necessaries that filled the bag. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Secondly, Taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He accoutred me with other necessaries, all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours before I would use them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Among those commodities would be comprehended all the necessaries of life, and all the materials of manufacture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Tim