Synonyms: necessary, necessity, essential, requirement, requisite
Definition: anything indispensable
Usage: food and shelter are necessities of life; the essentials of the good life; allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions; a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
Similar words: thing
Definition: a separate and self-contained entity
Synonyms: necessary
Definition: unavoidably determined by prior circumstances
Usage: the necessary consequences of one's actions
Similar words: inevitable
Definition: incapable of being avoided or prevented
Usage: the inevitable result
Synonyms: necessary
Definition: absolutely essential
Similar words: indispensable, essential
Definition: absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
Usage: essential tools and materials; funds essential to the completion of the project; an indispensable worker
Similar words: incumbent
Definition: necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
Usage: it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts
Similar words: needed, needful, required, requisite
Definition: necessary for relief or supply
Usage: provided them with all things needful
Similar words: obligatory
Definition: required by obligation or compulsion or convention
Usage: he made all the obligatory apologies