| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | nec·es·sar·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  n s  -sr  |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Absolutely essential. See synonyms at indispensable. 2. Needed to achieve a certain result or effect; requisite: the necessary tools. 3a. Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable: the necessary results of overindulgence. b. Logically inevitable. 4. Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention: made the necessary apologies. | | NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. nec·es·sar·ies
Something indispensable. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English necessarie, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necess rius, from necesse. See ked- in Appendix I.
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