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necessary
adjective as in essential
Strongest matches
basic, crucial, decisive, essential, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, needed, paramount, required, significant, unavoidable, urgent, vital
Strong matches
binding, cardinal, chief, expedient, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, requisite
Weak matches
all-important, bottom-line, compelling, compulsory, de rigueur, elementary, exigent, incumbent on, momentous, must-have, name of game, needful, obligatory, quintessential, specified, wanted
adjective as in inevitable
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Weak matches
assured, fated, ineluctable, ineludible, inerrant, inescapable, inevasible, inexorable, infallible, returnless, undeniable, unescapable
Example Sentences
At a press conference last month, Badenoch said the Conservatives still believed a "deterrent" was necessary but did not commit to a revival of the Rwanda scheme.
Valya would explain why that was necessary and I have empathy for her decisions.
Athletic contests are a schoolhouse of democracy that inculcates the habits of civic engagement necessary for a free people to thrive.
"The entire state is mobilized here to provide the necessary assistance," he told reporters at the scene.
Second, both Obama and Harris exemplified personality-focused politics, which have been dominant since the Reagan era and inherently favors performative splash over solving fundamental problems and party-building as the necessary path to doing that.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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