necessary: meaning and definitions

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What is necessary?

What is necessary?

  • Absolutely essential. See Synonyms at indispensable.
  • Needed to achieve a certain result or effect; requisite: the necessary tools.
  • Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable: the necessary results of overindulgence.
  • Logically inevitable.
  • Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention: made the necessary apologies.
  • Something indispensable.

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