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necessary
adjective as in essential
Strongest matches
basic, crucial, decisive, essential, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, needed, paramount, required, significant, unavoidable, urgent, vital
Strong matches
binding, cardinal, chief, expedient, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, requisite
Weak matches
all-important, bottom-line, compelling, compulsory, de rigueur, elementary, exigent, incumbent on, momentous, must-have, name of game, needful, obligatory, quintessential, specified, wanted
adjective as in inevitable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
assured, fated, ineluctable, ineludible, inerrant, inescapable, inevasible, inexorable, infallible, returnless, undeniable, unescapable
Example Sentences
Indeed, Dalia has trouble with her Italian, and when she offers to help him find truffles, he insists his granddaughter doesn’t have the instincts or the calloused hands necessary for the job.
“I want to know why it happened, how it happened and take the necessary steps to ensure that it never happens again,” he said.
Sources behind the bill have told the BBC they are confident it will be given extra time in the Lords if necessary.
Above all, what one of Mr. Fox’s subjects called “a change of attitude to time” becomes necessary, with intense mental concentration supplanting deadline anxiety and rushed execution.
These details were necessary to interpret the radio burst and determine the nature of the eruption.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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