necessary

necessary
adj
1. needed, needful, called-for, occasioned, in demand, requisite, required; indispensable, vital, essential, of the essence, important, of the utmost importance; fundamental, elementary, rudimentary, basic, bedrock, material, substantive, Inf. square-one; imperative, urgent, exigent, instant, pressing, compelling, high-priority, high-pressure, life-and-death or life-or-death.
2. compulsive, involuntary, coercive, choiceless, forced; compulsory, obligatory, binding, mandatory, prescriptive; inescapable, unavoidable, includible, ineluctable, inevasible, irresistible; certain, for certain, sure, for sure, sure as death, sure as death and taxes, inevitable, necessitous.
n
3. necessity, requisite, requirement. See necessity(def.1).
4.Chiefly New England. privy, outhouse, backhouse, stool, closet, cloaca, Brit. Sl. bog.

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