Thesaurus / necessities
other words for necessities
MOST RELEVANT
- essential
- fundamental
- obligation
- precondition
- prerequisite
- requirement
- urgency
- call
- cause
- claim
- compulsion
- demand
- desideratum
- duress
- essence
- exaction
- exigency
- godsend
- imperative
- indispensability
- inevitability
- inexorableness
- must
- necessary
- pinch
- privation
- requisite
- stress
- vitals
- want
- life or death
- needfulness
- no alternative
- no choice
- sine qua non
- undeniability
- vital part
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He, who knows the dangers and necessities we were in, will appreciate the joy we felt and that we feel at its arrival.
Wasnt it wickedseeminglythat one should have so much money, while another needed the very necessities of life?
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON
Meanwhile, the judicious establishment of free soup kitchens in the streets alleviated the necessities of the mob.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
Surely a third class passenger is entitled at least to the bare necessities of life.
THIRD CLASS IN INDIAN RAILWAYSMAHATMA GANDHI
Its folds are ample, to remind us that all who have recourse to her find a secure refuge in all dangers and necessities.
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANSVARIOUS
The few necessities the girls were taking were rolled in slickers and strapped behind their saddles.
THE ADVENTURE GIRLS AT K BAR OCLAIR BLANK
Despise not our petitions in our necessities, and deliver us from all dangers, O ever glorious and blessed Virgin!
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANSVARIOUS
They are made from the instinct of self-preservation, from patriotic aspirations, from the necessities of civilization.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
Pious souls will minister to your necessities, and you can wait in safety for better times.
AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERRORHONORE DE BALZAC
Many necessities in England are superfluities or even inconveniences under sunnier skies.
SPANISH LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYL. HIGGIN AND EUGNE E. STREET
WORDS RELATED TO NECESSITIES
- affluence
- aliment
- alimentation
- bread
- bread and butter
- capital
- circumstances
- competence
- earnings
- existence
- food
- fortune
- gratuity
- income
- independence
- keep
- legacy
- livelihood
- living
- maintenance
- means
- money
- necessities
- nurture
- pension
- property
- provision
- ration
- resources
- riches
- salary
- salt
- substance
- support
- sustenance
- upkeep
- victuals
- wages
- wealth
- wherewithal
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.