| Main Entry: | essential |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, basic |
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ABCs, bottom line, brass tacks, condition, element, essence, fire and ice, fundamental, groceries, guts*, heart, meat and potatoes, must, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, part and parcel, precondition, prerequisite, principle, quintessence, requirement, requisite, rudiment, sine qua non, stuff, substance, vital part, where one's at |
| Notes: | the words crucial, essential, and vital cannot be qualified (cannot be more or less...) |
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accessory, auxiliary, nonessential, subsidiary, throwaway, trivia |
| Main Entry: | necessity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
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call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, essential, exaction, exigency, fundamental, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, must, necessary, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, obligation, pinch, precondition, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, stress, undeniability, urgency, vital part, vitals, want |
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desire, want |
| Main Entry: | requirement/requisite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity, want |
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claim, compulsion, concern, condition, demand, desideratum, element, engrossment, essential, exaction, exigency, extremity, fulfillment, fundamental, imperative, lack, must, need, obligation, obsession, pinch, precondition, preliminary, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequisite, prescription, provision, proviso, qualification, sine qua non, specification, stipulation, terms, urgency, vital part |
Antonyms: |
desire, option, wish |
| Main Entry: | requirement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessity |
Synonyms: |
claim, compulsion, concern, condition, demand, desideratum, element, engrossment, essential, exaction, exigency, extremity, fulfillment, fundamental, imperative, lack, must, need, obligation, obsession, pinch, precondition, preliminary, preoccupation, prepossession, prerequisite, prescription, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, specification, stipulation, stress, terms, urgency, vital part, want |
| Concept: | Necessity. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of Volition |
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-nouns
involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination., necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion; subjection; 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., 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); necessaries (requirement)., 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; necessitate; compel.
-adjectives
necessary, needful (requisite)., fated; destined; elect; spellbound., compulsory (compel); uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless, resistless., involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional (undesigned); impulsive.
-adverbs
necessarily; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce; 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 |
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| Concept: | Requirement. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessities of life; stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death., needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency., requisition (request), (exaction) [more]; run upon; demand, call for., charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept., desideratum (desire); want (deficiency).
-verbs
require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with; prerequire., render necessary, necessitate, create a necessity for, call for, put in requisition; make a requisition (ask for), (demand) [more]., stand in need of; lack; desiderate; desire; be necessary.
-adjectives
required; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request., urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing., in want of; destitute of.
-adverbs
ex necessitate rei (necessarily); of necessity.
-phrases
there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Quintilian]; necessitas non habet legem; nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te
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