What is another word for "necessary"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "necessary": able, absorbing, ask, call, cannot, case, charge, claim, command, create, crying, death, deficiency, demand, desiderate, desideratum, desire, destitute, dispense, essential, essentiality, exaction, exigency, exigent, for, have, imperative, indispensability, indispensable, injunction, instant, lack, life, lose, make, mandate, matter, necessarily, necessitate, necessity.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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