NECESSARY meaning: Required for a specific purpose

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word Necessary:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

necessary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
necessary, the necessary: Merriam-Webster
necessary, necessary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
necessary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
necessary, the necessary: Collins English Dictionary
necessary: Vocabulary.com
Necessary, necessary: Wordnik
necessary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Necessary, necessary: Wiktionary
necessary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
necessary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
necessary: Infoplease Dictionary
Necessary, necessary: Dictionary.com
necessary: Online Etymology Dictionary
necessary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Necessary (song), Necessary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Necessary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
necessary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
necessary: Rhymezone
necessary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
necessary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
necessary: FreeDictionary.org
necessary: Mnemonic Dictionary
necessary: TheFreeDictionary.com
necessary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

necessary: Law.com Dictionary
Necessary (logic), necessary: Legal dictionary
Necessary (logic), Necessary: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Necessary (logic), Necessary (modal logic), necessary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Necessary (logic), necessary: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
NECESSARY: Acronym Finder
necessary: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
necessary: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)

Necessary: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
necessary: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

necessary: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
necessary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Necessary)

▸ adjective:  Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
▸ adjective:  Unavoidable, inevitable.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
▸ noun:  (chiefly UK, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, archaic, euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Necessity.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Opposite:

unnecessary, optional, dispensable, nonessential, extraneous

Types:

essential, crucial, vital, imperative, mandatory, requisite, indispensable, important, needed, more...

Phrases:

the necessary, necessary condition, necessary conditions, necessary evil, medically necessary, more...

Adjectives:

how, more, additional, further, special, good, some, personal, time, exercise, consent

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