Dictionary Entry
necessary
necessary is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
- 2adjective
Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
- 3adjective
Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
- 4noun
A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
- 5noun
A privy; a water-closet.
- 6noun
Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
- 7noun
anything indispensable
"food and shelter are necessities of life"
"the essentials of the good life"
- 8adjective
unavoidably determined by prior circumstances
"the necessary consequences of one's actions"
- 9adjective
absolutely essential
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