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more necessary

ADJECTIVE

essential

Synonyms

STRONGEST

basic crucial decisive fundamental imperative indispensable mandatory needed paramount required significant unavoidable urgent vital

STRONG

binding cardinal chief expedient prerequisite pressing prime principal requisite

WEAK

all-important bottom-line compelling compulsory de rigueur elementary exigent incumbent on momentous name of game needful obligatory quintessential specified wanted

Antonyms

STRONGEST

additional extra inessential minor nonessential optional secondary trivial unimportant unnecessary voluntary

STRONG

insignificant

WEAK

contingent needless useless

ADJECTIVE

inevitable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

certain imminent unavoidable

WEAK

assured fated ineluctable ineludible inerrant inescapable inevasible inexorable infallible returnless undeniable unescapable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtful

WEAK

contingent inessential needless optional unimportant unnecessary useless voluntary

Example Sentences

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An 89-72 win over the expansion Portland Fire on Sunday to close a 1-2 homestand felt more necessary than the Sparks might have wanted to admit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

It is more necessary now than ever before.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

Wikipedia editors are not high-profile influencers with any sort of private protection, which makes common security measures like bag checks all the more necessary.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025

That it does, though, makes calling these things out and correcting them more necessary, not less.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

It’s a lot harder, I found, to sort out a human microsystem when you’re looking up at it from the bottom, and, of course, a lot more necessary to do so.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich