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Absolutely necessary; indispensable; requisite
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- Absolutely necessary; indispensable; requisite
- Fundamentally important or necessary:
- (Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet:
Required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable
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- Required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable
- Required; essential.
Needed; essential:
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- Needed; essential:
- Obligatory:
Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
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- Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
- Conveying a sense of pressing importance:
- Calling for haste, immediate action, etc.; grave; pressing
Based on or offering what is of use or advantage rather than what is right or just; guided by self-interest; politic
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- Based on or offering what is of use or advantage rather than what is right or just; guided by self-interest; politic
- Convenient but based on a concern for self-interest rather than principle:
- Useful for effecting a desired result; suited to the circumstances or the occasion; advantageous; convenient
(Archaic) Needy
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- (Archaic) Needy
- Being in need of something:
- Necessary; needed; required
Obligatory; unavoidable:
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- Obligatory; unavoidable:
- That cannot be dispensed with or neglected
- Absolutely necessary; essential.
- Necessary; being needed.
(Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
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- (Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
- Having the nature of, or indicating, power or authority; commanding
- Necessary or urgent:
Required beforehand, esp. as a necessary condition for something following
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- Required beforehand, esp. as a necessary condition for something following
- Required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.
- Required or necessary as a prior condition:
Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
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- Having or making urgent demands; demanding:
- Calling for immediate action or attention; urgent; critical
- Requiring immediate action; pressing:
Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
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- Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
- Demanding immediate attention; urgent:
- Persistent in request or demand; insistent
Extremely important; essential:
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- Extremely important; essential:
- Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining:
- Necessary to continued existence or effectiveness:
Bright-red, like the robe of a cardinal
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- Bright-red, like the robe of a cardinal
- Of foremost importance; paramount:
- Of main importance; principal; chief
On which others are based; primary; original
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- On which others are based; primary; original
- Of or relating to the lowest possible frequency or the lowest frequency component of a vibrating element, system, periodic wave, or quantity:
- Most important; chief
Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
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- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- (Statistics) Of or relating to observations or occurrences that are too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicate a systematic relationship.
- Having or likely to have a major effect; important:
Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence:
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- Of utmost importance; of outstanding significance or consequence:
- Of great moment; very important
Obligatory; required:
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- Obligatory; required:
- That must be done, undergone, etc.; obligatory; required
- Compelled, mandated, obligatory, or required, especially if by legal process or a statute. Compelled, mandated, obligatory, or required, especially if by legal process or a statute.
Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate
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- Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate
- Authoritatively commanded or required; obligatory
- Required or commanded by authority; obligatory:
Of, at, or forming a base; fundamental; essential
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- Of, at, or forming a base; fundamental; essential
- A simple programming language developed in the 1960s that is widely taught to students as a first programming language.
- Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis:
Highest in rank, power, or authority:
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- Highest in rank, power, or authority:
- Ranking higher than any other, as in power or importance; chief; supreme
Required as part of a routine course of action or cultural expectation; predictable:
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- Required as part of a routine course of action or cultural expectation; predictable:
- Of the nature of an obligation; compulsory:
- Legally, morally, or socially binding; constituting, or having the nature of, an obligation; required
Of the greatest importance; crucial.
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- Of the greatest importance; crucial.
- Highly important; necessary; essential
Tending to cause constipation:
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- Tending to cause constipation:
- Imposing or commanding adherence to a commitment, an obligation, or a duty:
- Assigning something that one will be held to.
That cannot be avoided; inevitable
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- That cannot be avoided; inevitable
- Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
Marked by promptness and decision.
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- Marked by promptness and decision.
- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- Determining or closely affecting what comes next; critically important; crucial
Vital to the resolution of a crisis or the determination of an outcome:
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- Vital to the resolution of a crisis or the determination of an outcome:
- (Med.) Having the form of a cross
- Extremely significant or important:
Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or fundamental part:
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- Of, relating to, or constituting the basic, essential, or fundamental part:
- Of first principles, rudiments, or fundamentals; introductory; basic; simple
- Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject:
Of, relating to, or having the nature of a quintessence; being the most typical:
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- Of, relating to, or having the nature of a quintessence; being the most typical:
Highest, as in rank or office; foremost
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- Highest, as in rank or office; foremost
- Highest in rank, authority, or office:
- Most important or influential:
Highest or among the highest in rank, authority, importance, degree, etc.
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- Highest or among the highest in rank, authority, importance, degree, etc.
- First or highest in rank or importance.
- Of, relating to, or being financial principal, or a principal in a financial transaction.
Being the most desired or suitable example of something:
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- Being the most desired or suitable example of something:
- From which others are derived; fundamental; basic
- First or highest in rank or importance; main:
(Anatomy) Situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts. Used of certain nerves and muscles.
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- (Anatomy) Situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts. Used of certain nerves and muscles.
- Belonging to the real nature of a thing; not dependent on external circumstances; essential; inherent
Supplied with what one needs.
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- Supplied with what one needs.
- Not subject to change or variation; unchanging:
- Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
A quantity that is unknown but assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.
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- A quantity that is unknown but assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context.
- Remaining free from variation or change; regular; stable
- Remaining firm in purpose; resolute
Not expected to change in status, condition, or place:
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- Not expected to change in status, condition, or place:
- Lasting a relatively long time
- Lasting or remaining without essential change:
Having exact limits; definite; distinct; fixed
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- Having exact limits; definite; distinct; fixed
- Precisely determined, limited, or defined.
- Not continuing to grow at an apical meristem. In the cyme, a determinate inflorescence, for example, the first floret develops at the end of the meristem, and no further elongation of the inflorescence can occur.
Existing in someone or something as a natural and inseparable quality, characteristic, or right; intrinsic; innate; basic
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- Existing in someone or something as a natural and inseparable quality, characteristic, or right; intrinsic; innate; basic
- Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; intrinsic:
Possessed as an essential characteristic; inherent:
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- Possessed as an essential characteristic; inherent:
- Existing naturally rather than acquired; that seems to have been in one from birth
- Existing naturally or by heredity rather than being learned through experience:
That cannot be avoided; inevitable
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- That cannot be avoided; inevitable
- Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
That cannot be denied; indisputable
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- That cannot be denied; indisputable
- Difficult or impossible to deny; irrefutable:
- Irrefutable, or impossible to deny
- Guaranteed
- Exhibiting confidence or authority:
- Made certain; guaranteed:
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insignificant
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(Medicine) Relating to or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
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- (Medicine) Relating to or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
- Fundamentally important or necessary:
- (Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet:
That cannot be dispensed with or neglected
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- That cannot be dispensed with or neglected
- Obligatory; unavoidable:
- Absolutely necessary; essential.
(Archaic) Needy
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- (Archaic) Needy
- Being in need of something:
- Necessary; required:
Needed; essential:
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- Needed; essential:
- Obligatory:
Required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable
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- Required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable
- Required; essential.
That must be done, undergone, etc.; obligatory; required
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- That must be done, undergone, etc.; obligatory; required
- Compelled, mandated, obligatory, or required, especially if by legal process or a statute. Compelled, mandated, obligatory, or required, especially if by legal process or a statute.
- Obligatory; required:
(Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
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- (Gram.) Designating or of the mood of a verb that expresses a command, strong request, or exhortation
- Having the nature of, or indicating, power or authority; commanding
- Necessary or urgent:
Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate
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- Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate
- Required or commanded by authority; obligatory:
- Authoritatively commanded or required; obligatory
Required as part of a routine course of action or cultural expectation; predictable:
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- Required as part of a routine course of action or cultural expectation; predictable:
- Of the nature of an obligation; compulsory:
- Legally, morally, or socially binding; constituting, or having the nature of, an obligation; required
Needed; essential:
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- Needed; essential:
- Obligatory:
Required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable
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- Required, as by circumstances; necessary for some purpose; indispensable
- Required; essential.
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