| Main Entry: | needful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
Synonyms: |
capital, cardinal, chief, constitutive, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, necessitous, needed, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, right-hand, wanted |
| Main Entry: | essential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important, vital |
Synonyms: |
capital, cardinal, chief, constitutive, crucial, foremost, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, leading, main, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, principal, required, requisite, right-hand, wanted |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
Antonyms: |
accessory, auxiliary, inessential, minor, nonessential, secondary, subsidiary, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | exigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent, pressing |
Synonyms: |
acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, menacing, necessary, needful, threatening |
Antonyms: |
ordinary, unpressured, usual |
| Main Entry: | indispensable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
Synonyms: |
basal, basic, cardinal, crucial, essential, fundamental, imperative, key, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, primary, required, requisite, vital |
Antonyms: |
dispensable, needless, nonessential, redundant, superfluous, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | mandatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | required, necessary |
Synonyms: |
binding, commanding, compelling, compulsatory, compulsory, de rigueur, essential, forced, imperative, imperious, indispensable, involuntary, irremissible, needful, obligatory, requisite |
Antonyms: |
optional, unnecessary, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | necessary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
Synonyms: |
all-important, basic, binding, bottom-line, cardinal, chief, compelling, compulsory, crucial, de rigueur, decisive, elementary, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, incumbent on, indispensable, mandatory, momentous, name of game, needed, needful, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, quintessential, required, requisite, significant, specified, unavoidable, urgent, vital, wanted |
Antonyms: |
inessential, unimportant, unnecessary, useless |
| Main Entry: | poverty-stricken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very poor |
Synonyms: |
bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, broke, broke*, destitute, dirt poor, distressed, down and out, down-and-out, hard up, impencunious, impoverished, in dire circumstances, in great need; financially poor, in want, indigent, miserably poor, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, short*, stone broke, stranded, strapped, strapped, suffering, unmoneyed, wanting |
Antonyms: |
rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | prerequisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
Synonyms: |
called for, essential, expedient, imperative, important, indispensable, mandatory, necessitous, needful, obligatory, of the essence, required, requisite, vital |
Antonyms: |
optional, unnecessary, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | required/requisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, called for, compulsatory, compulsory, condign, demanded, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, needful, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital |
Antonyms: |
nonessential, optional, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | underlying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fundamental, latent |
Synonyms: |
basal, basic, bottom, bottom-line, cardinal, concealed, critical, crucial, elemental, elementary, essential, hidden, indispensable, intrinsic, lurking, necessary, needful, nitty-gritty, nub, primary, prime, primitive, radical, root, substratal, veiled, vital |
Antonyms: |
secondary |