more necessary

adjessential
adjinevitable

Antonyms for more necessary

Word Origin & History

late 14c. "needed, required, essential, indispensable," from Old French necessaire "necessary, urgent, compelling" (13c.), and directly from Latin necessarius "unavoidable, indispensable, necessary," from necesse "unavoidable, indispensable," originally "no backing away," from ne- "not" + cedere "to withdraw, go away, yield" (see cede). The root sense is of that from which there is no evasion, that which is inevitable. Necessary house "privy" is from c.1600. Necessary evil is from 1540s (the original reference was to "woman").

Example Sentences for more necessary

Sez I, "One hain't no more necessary than the other in my opinion."

I honestly believe it is more necessary now than it ever was.

He felt it all the more necessary that they should sketch it for him.

This was the more necessary because the Boers were known to be intensely suspicious.

If certain things are more necessary to you than me,—search for them.

You are my world, dearer than life, more necessary than the air we breathe.

But the other half is harder and more necessary,—to get a thing well ended.

Prompt and energetic measures were more necessary than ever.

This precaution was more necessary while they were in motion than at rest.

Now, nothing can be more necessary than that this notion should be done away with.

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