Another word for necessary
necessary
modif.
Essential
essential, requisite, expedient, needful, indispensable, needed, required, urgent, wanted, imperative, prerequisite, exigent, pressing, vital, cardinal, fundamental, significant, momentous, compulsory, mandatory, basic, paramount, obligatory, essential, compelling, incumbent on, incumbent upon, all-important, nuts-and-bolts, binding, specified, unavoidable, decisive, crucial, elementary, quintessential, chief, principal, prime, intrinsic, fixed, constant, permanent, determinate, inherent, ingrained, innate, without choice, without appeal; see also important 1.
Antonyms unimportant*, unessential, insignificant.
Inevitable
unavoidable, undeniable, assured; see certain 2, imminent, inevitable.
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Another word for necessary
Incapable of being dispensed with:
essential, indispensable, needful, required, requisite. See important, necessaryImposed on one by authority, command, or convention:
compulsory, imperative, mandatory, obligatory, required, requisite. See obligation
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