n
Necessity beyond all supplications or sway. Conceived as the ultimate dictator of all fate and circumstances, to which even the gods must ultimately pay homage and deference.
n
(obsolete) The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
adj
Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
n
The most basic items required in order to live or to perform something.
n
A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
adj
(archaic) Needful or proper; beneficial; behoving.
adj
(archaic) Necessary; advantageous.
adj
Required; obligatory; mandatory.
v
To need something that would be beneficial.
adv
(law) Conditionally; provisionally; in anticipation of future need.
v
(India, Nigeria, dated UK) To do that which is necessary or required.
n
(politics, international law) The principle that a state in immediate peril to its existence, from a situation not of its own doing, may in extremis be justified in violating a right of another state.
n
Synonym of doctrine of necessity
n
Synonym of doctrine of necessity
adj
Necessary or needful in the same degree.
n
(archaic) The amount that is required.
n
An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
n
The quality of being based on facts.
n
The state or quality of being factual.
v
Alternative form of have to (“must”) [Must; need to; to be required to. Indicates obligation.]
v
Must; need to; to be required to. Indicates obligation.
adv
(idiomatic) If necessary; if there is a need.
adv
(idiomatic) If need be; if there is a need.
n
(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
adj
Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
n
(in combinations) The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of knees.
adv
In a mandatory manner; not optionally; required.
n
(obsolete) Need (of something).
n
Synonym of necessity money
v
(modal auxiliary, defective) To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
v
(dated) A pleonastic intensification of must using the adverb needs, meaning “must necessarily”.
adj
(in later use Scotland, now rare) Necessary.
n
Alternative letter-case form of necessarian [(philosophy, theology) An adherent of necessarianism; an advocate of the doctrine of necessity.]
n
The state or characteristic of being necessary.
n
(idiomatic) An unfavorable thing that must be done or accepted, especially because the available alternative courses of action or inaction would be worse.
v
(transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
adv
By necessity; necessarily.
adj
(grammar) Being or relating to a grammatical form that indicates necessity.
adj
(obsolete) In a state of want; necessitous.
n
(rare) The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.
n
(rare, usually pluralized) A circumstance or event which is necessary or unavoidable, especially because it is a requirement of a social role or natural state of affairs.
adj
(rare) Characterized by or a result of necessity.
n
Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
n
(countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
v
(idiomatic) To need something immediately or urgently; to need something that is already late.
adj
With respect to financial or other assistance, derived from need rather than earned by merit.
n
(rare) Something that is not needed or is excessive.
n
Something that one needs to know; a piece of necessary information.
adj
(obsolete or nonstandard) Needful; necessary.
n
(dialect, nonstandard) necessity
n
A person who requires or needs something.
adj
Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable.
adj
Archaic spelling of needful. [Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable.]
adv
(archaic) Necessarily; of necessity.
n
(archaic, in the plural) outfit; necessary luggage
v
Alternative form of must needs. [(dated) A pleonastic intensification of must using the adverb needs, meaning “must necessarily”.]
adv
Of necessity or need; necessarily.
adv
(obsolete) Of necessity; for some pressing reason.
adj
Marked by necessity; necessary.
adv
(Now chiefly UK dialectal) By or because of necessity; needwise.
adv
By or because of necessity; according to need; by need.
adj
(rare) Worthy of a particular need.
adj
(archaic) Needful; necessary.
adj
Pronunciation spelling of necessary. [Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.]
adj
Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
adj
Requiring a matter or obligation.
n
Need; requirement, necessity.
adj
(obsolete) Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.
adv
Necessarily; by necessity.
n
A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
n
(humorous) A fictional unit of length defined as the thickness of issue #26 (November 1955) of Mad Magazine, or approximately 2.26 millimetres.
n
(philosophy) Synonym of verifiability principle
n
(philosophy) Synonym of verifiability principle
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Abbreviation of requirement. [A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relation to what is required.]
adj
Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.
n
A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom or what it is given to, and for in relation to what is required.
adj
Essential, indispensable, required.
n
That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.
n
An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient.
n
Alternative spelling of sine qua non [An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient.]
adj
(law) Absolutely mandatory, without any exceptions.
n
(predicative) The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose.
v
(transitive) To remove the requirement for something; to make unnecessary.
n
The true or real cause of something.
n
The quality of being veridical.
adj
Necessary to continued existence.
n
(archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.
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