necessity | | |
n. (state) | 1. necessity | the condition of being essential or indispensable. |
| ~ need, demand | a condition requiring relief.; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" |
| ~ requisiteness | the state of being absolutely required. |
| ~ urgency | the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity. |
n. (object) | 2. essential, necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite | anything indispensable.; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" |
| ~ thing | a separate and self-contained entity. |
| ~ desideratum | something desired as a necessity.; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money" |
| ~ must | a necessary or essential thing.; "seat belts are an absolute must" |
| ~ need, want | anything that is necessary but lacking.; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" |
requisite | | |
adj. | 1. needed, needful, required, requisite | necessary for relief or supply.; "provided them with all things needful" |
| ~ necessary | absolutely essential. |
imperative | | |
n. (linkdef) | 1. imperative, imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood | a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior. |
| ~ modality, mood, mode | verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker. |
n. (act) | 2. imperative | some duty that is essential and urgent. |
| ~ duty, obligation, responsibility | the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force.; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty" |
adj. | 3. imperative | requiring attention or action.; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" |
| ~ assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive | aggressively self-assured.; "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act" |
| ~ adjuratory | containing a solemn charge or command. |
| ~ crying, exigent, clamant, insistent, instant | demanding attention.; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" |
| ~ peremptory | not allowing contradiction or refusal.; "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands" |
| ~ desperate | showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire.; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition" |
| ~ pressing, urgent | compelling immediate action.; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" |
| ~ shrill, strident | being sharply insistent on being heard.; "strident demands"; "shrill criticism" |
adj. (pertain) | 4. imperative | relating to verbs in the imperative mood. |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
mandatory | | |
n. (person) | 1. mandatary, mandatory | the recipient of a mandate. |
| ~ recipient, receiver | a person who receives something. |
n. (location) | 2. mandate, mandatory | a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves. |
| ~ district, territorial dominion, territory, dominion | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes. |
| ~ palestine | a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948. |
adj. | 3. compulsory, mandatory, required | required by rule.; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" |
| ~ obligatory | morally or legally constraining or binding.; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution" |
necessary | | |
adj. | 1. necessary | absolutely essential. |
| ~ obligatory | morally or legally constraining or binding.; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution" |
| ~ essential | basic and fundamental.; "the essential feature" |
| ~ indispensable | not to be dispensed with; essential.; "foods indispensable to good nutrition" |
| ~ essential, indispensable | absolutely necessary; vitally necessary.; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker" |
| ~ incumbent | necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding.; "it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts" |
| ~ needed, needful, required, requisite | necessary for relief or supply.; "provided them with all things needful" |
| ~ obligatory | required by obligation or compulsion or convention.; "he made all the obligatory apologies" |
adj. | 2. necessary | unavoidably determined by prior circumstances.; "the necessary consequences of one's actions" |
| ~ inevitable | incapable of being avoided or prevented.; "the inevitable result" |
vital | | |
adj. | 1. critical, vital | urgently needed; absolutely necessary.; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest" |
| ~ indispensable | not to be dispensed with; essential.; "foods indispensable to good nutrition" |
adj. | 2. life-sustaining, vital | performing an essential function in the living body.; "vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"; "life-giving love and praise" |
| ~ essential | basic and fundamental.; "the essential feature" |
adj. | 3. full of life, lively, vital | full of spirit.; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world" |
| ~ animated, alive | having life or vigor or spirit.; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news" |
adj. | 4. vital | manifesting or characteristic of life.; "a vital, living organism"; "vital signs" |
| ~ alive, live | possessing life.; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" |
must | | |
n. (object) | 1. must | a necessary or essential thing.; "seat belts are an absolute must" |
| ~ essential, necessary, requisite, necessity, requirement | anything indispensable.; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" |
n. (food) | 2. must | grape juice before or during fermentation. |
| ~ grape juice | the juice of grapes. |
n. (attribute) | 3. moldiness, must, mustiness | the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy. |
| ~ staleness | having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging. |
adj. | 4. must | highly recommended.; "a book that is must reading" |
| ~ essential | basic and fundamental.; "the essential feature" |
need | | |
n. (state) | 1. demand, need | a condition requiring relief.; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| ~ deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
| ~ necessity | the condition of being essential or indispensable. |
n. (object) | 2. need, want | anything that is necessary but lacking.; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" |
| ~ essential, necessary, requisite, necessity, requirement | anything indispensable.; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" |
n. (tops) | 3. motivation, motive, need | the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" |
| ~ psychological feature | a feature of the mental life of a living organism. |
| ~ life | a motive for living.; "pottery was his life" |
| ~ rational motive | a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument. |
| ~ irrational motive | a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic. |
| ~ impulse, urge | an instinctive motive.; "profound religious impulses" |
| ~ ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality | motivation based on ideas of right and wrong. |
| ~ mental energy, psychic energy | an actuating force or factor. |
n. (state) | 4. indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury | a state of extreme poverty or destitution.; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" |
| ~ impoverishment, poorness, poverty | the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. |
| ~ mendicancy, mendicity, beggary | the state of being a beggar or mendicant.; "they were reduced to mendicancy" |
v. (stative) | 5. ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take | require as useful, just, or proper.; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood.; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German" |
| ~ draw | require a specified depth for floating.; "This boat draws 70 inches" |
| ~ cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.; "This mistake cost him his job" |
| ~ cry for, cry out for | need badly or desperately.; "This question cries out for an answer" |
| ~ compel | necessitate or exact.; "the water shortage compels conservation" |
v. (consumption) | 6. need, require, want | have need of.; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" |
| ~ cry | demand immediate action.; "This situation is crying for attention" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
v. (consumption) | 7. need | have or feel a need for.; "always needing friends and money" |
require | | |
v. (communication) | 1. ask, expect, require | consider obligatory; request and expect.; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons" |
| ~ demand | request urgently and forcefully.; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager" |
| ~ call | require the presentation of for redemption before maturation.; "Call a bond" |
v. (communication) | 2. command, require | make someone do something. |
| ~ order, enjoin, tell, say | give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" |
| ~ burden, saddle, charge | impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" |
| ~ requisition | make a formal request for official services. |
| ~ disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, interdict, veto | command against.; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" |
needy | | |
n. (group) | 1. needy | needy people collectively.; "they try to help the needy" |
| ~ poor, poor people | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group).; "the urban poor need assistance" |
adj. | 2. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken | poor enough to need help from others. |
| ~ poor | having little money or few possessions.; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" |
adj. | 3. needy | demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree. |
| ~ demanding | requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill.; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" |
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