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| Main Entry: | necessity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
| Synonyms: | call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, duress, essence, essential, exigency, fundamental, godsend*, imperative, must, necessary, obligation, pinch, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, stress, urgency, want, desideratum, exaction, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, precondition, sine qua non, undeniability, vital part, vitals |
| Antonyms: | desire, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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-nouns
involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination., necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion [more]; subjection [more]; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be., destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot, fortune; fatalism; inevitableness; spell [more]., star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice., last shift, last resort; dernier ressort; pis aller (stubstitute) [more]; necessaries (requirement) [more]., necessarian, necessitarian; fatalist; automaton.
-verbs
lie under a necessity; be fated, be doomed, be destined, be destined for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate to, be pushed to the wall, be driven into a corner, be unable to help., destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell [more]; necessitate; compel [more].
-adjectives
necessary, needful (requisite) [more]., fated; destined; elect; spellbound., compulsory (compel) [more]; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless, resistless., involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional (undesigned) [more]; impulsive [more].
-adverbs
necessarily; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce [more]; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute., faute de mieux; by stress of; if need be.
-phrases
it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter gvisum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus;
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| Antonyms: | will |
| Main Entry: | compulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, obligation |
| Synonyms: | coercion, constraint, demand, drive, driving, duress, duty, exigency, force, hang-up, monkey*, necessity, need, obsession, preoccupation, pressure, urge, urgency, engrossment, have on the brain, prepossession, tiger by the tail |
| Antonyms: | free will, freedom, independence, liberty, license |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crisis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical situation |
| Synonyms: | catastrophe, change, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch*, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth*, necessity, pass, pickle*, pinch*, plight, point of no return*, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency, big trouble, climacteric, hot potato, hour of decision, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | emergency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, danger |
| Synonyms: | accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch*, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour*, meltdown |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exigency/exigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty; demand |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle*, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour*, criticalness, demandingness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness |
| Antonyms: | ease, easiness, ordinariness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disabling lack of talent, skill |
| Synonyms: | disqualification, failure, frailty, impotence, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, necessity, shortcoming, weakness, inaptitude, incapability, incapacitation, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, ineptness, inutility, powerlessness, unfitness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
| Antonyms: | ability, capacity, competence, skill, talent |
| Main Entry: | lack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deficiency, need |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, absence, curtailment, dearth, decrease, default, defect, deficit, depletion, deprivation, destitution, distress, exigency, inadequacy, inferiority, insufficiency, loss, meagerness, miss, necessity, paucity, poverty, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shrinkage, shrinking, stint, want, exiguity, insufficience, retrenchment, scantiness, shortness, slightness |
| Antonyms: | abundance, enough, excess, extra, lot, plenty, plethora, profusion, surplus |
| Main Entry: | obligation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
| Synonyms: | IOU*, accountability, agreement, bond, burden, business, call, cause, charge, chit*, commitment, compulsion, conscience, constraint, contract, debit, debt, dues, duty, engagement, liability, must, necessity, need, occasion, onus, part, place, promise, requirement, restraint, right, trust, understanding, accountableness, committal, devoir, due bill, ought |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poverty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want; extreme need, often financial |
| Synonyms: | bankruptcy, barrenness, dearth, debt, deficiency, deficit, depletion, destitution, difficulty, distress, emptiness, famine, hardship, inadequacy, indigence, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, necessity, pass, paucity, penury, pinch, poorness, privation, reduction, scarcity, shortage, starvation, vacancy, abjection, aridity, beggary, exiguity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, insolvency, necessitousness, pauperism, pennilessness, straits, underdevelopment |
| Antonyms: | abundance, affluence, luxury, richness, wealth |
| Main Entry: | privation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deprivation |
| Synonyms: | destitution, disadvantage, hardship, indigence, lack, necessity, need, poverty, want, neediness |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, service, treatment, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear*, wont, worth, applicability, capitalization, exercising, mobilization, relevance, serviceability, usability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exigency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, demand, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape, stress, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour, criticalness, demandingness, exigence, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness |
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | force |
| Synonyms: | coercion, compulsion, driving, duress, goad, hang-up*, monkey*, motive, necessity, pressure, repression, restraint, spring, spur, suppression, violence, a must, impelling, impulsion, no-no |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | appetite, craving, demand, fancy, hankering, hunger, longing, necessity, need, requirement, thirst, wish, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, limitation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, catch, codicil, contingency, demand, essential, exception, exemption, fine print, modification, must, necessity, postulate, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, reservation, rule, small print*, stipulation, terms, kicker, precondition, sine qua non, strings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | occasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reason, cause |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, basis, call, circumstance, excuse, foundation, ground, grounds, incident, inducement, influence, justification, motivation, motive, necessity, obligation, provocation, purpose, right, warrant, determinant, prompting |
| Main Entry: | pressure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand, difficulty |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, albatross*, burden, choke, clout, coercion, compulsion, confinement, constraint, crunch, discipline, distress, drag, duress, exigency, force, hardship, hassle, heat, hurry, influence, inside track*, load, misfortune, necessity, obligation, persuasion, power, press, pressure cooker, pull, requirement, strain, stress, sway, tension, trouble, urgency, weight, full court press, unnaturalness |
| Antonyms: | ease, facility, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, cause for action |
| Synonyms: | claim, excuse, grounds, justification, necessity, obligation, occasion, reason, right, urge |
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