Required Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-kwīrd
Incapable of being dispensed with
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. necessary
  2. requisite
  3. essential
  4. needful
  5. indispensable
  6. imperative
  7. needed
Antonyms:
  1. inessential
  2. optional
Imposed on one by authority, command, or convention
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. compulsory
  2. mandatory
  3. imperative
  4. necessary
  5. obligatory
  6. requisite
  7. coercive
  8. compelling
  9. deontic
  10. de rigueur
  11. essential
  12. forced
  13. incumbent
  14. indispensable
  15. needed
  16. prerequisite
Make someone do something
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. demand
  2. require
  3. stipulate
  4. requisitioned
  5. commanded
  6. exacted
  7. demanded
  8. claimed
Have need of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wanted
  2. needed
  3. lacked
Antonyms:
  1. disliked
Consider obligatory; request and expect
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. necessitated
  2. taken
  3. compelled
  4. demanded
  5. needed
  6. expected
  7. involved
  8. asked
  9. ordered
  10. entailed
  11. exacted
  12. desired
  13. obligated
  14. wanted
  15. claimed
  16. challenged
  17. lacked
  18. dictated
  19. forced
  20. commanded
  21. enjoined
  22. requisitioned
  23. postulated
  24. craved
  25. obliged
  26. bidden
To oblige to do or not do by force of authority, propriety, or custom
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. supposed
  2. expected

Words Related to Required

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Required Sentence Examples

  • Fixing supper required several.

  • Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

  • Quinn was required to pick up extra classes when an older professor passed away suddenly.

  • Alex and Jonathan had a relationship that required few words.

  • Tammy was well mannered and required little supervision.

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