noun
definition
(usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
adjective
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Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
example
Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
definition
Unavoidable, inevitable.
example
If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
synonyms
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Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
Examples of necessary in a Sentence
Maybe it wasn't necessary to say anything.
It is necessary to protect life, liberty, and property.
Carmen filled out all the necessary paperwork and then settled down for a long wait.
It is never necessary to urge her to study.
Was it necessary that anyone else endorsed her decisions?
Is it necessary to have someone say words over us, when we already know what we want?
It's necessary, so we can protect you.
Never would she have thought that a push up bra was necessary with ample firm breasts, but they swelled from the bra in a way that was smooth and attractive.
Dean asked, a decibel louder than necessary, causing a head-turn or two.
It will be necessary to go there.
Long pants or grubby clothes weren't necessary, as Dean had no intention of entering the mine.
But he needed further proofs and it was necessary to wait.
These features weren't on the site when it was first launched because the necessary data did not yet exist.
It had never been necessary to tease him to get him aroused.
It is often necessary to remind her that there are infinitely many things that the wisest people in the world cannot explain.
It wasn't necessary to count sheep.
She made him what he was, but his suffering was necessary to ensure his survival.
Having prepared everything necessary for the party, the Bergs were ready for their guests' arrival.
To obtain an absolutely pure culture with certainty it is necessary, even when the gelatin method is employed, to start from a single cell.
To imagine it as free, it is necessary to imagine it in the present, on the boundary between the past and the future--that is, outside time, which is impossible.
Life did not stand still and it was necessary to live.
Another deep breath was necessary to regain his composure.
Randy continued to talk, more rapidly than necessary, mentioning a small wedding.
The beauty went to the aunt, but Anna Pavlovna detained Pierre, looking as if she had to give some final necessary instructions.
Prince Vasili had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to throw this bone--a bill for thirty thousand rubles--to the poor princess that it might not occur to her to speak of his share in the affair of the inlaid portfolio.
She wandered toward the verandah, considering everything necessary to prepare for the trip.
Dean had no stomach for going any deeper than necessary and the water from the mine seepage was getting deeper.
But these justifications have a very necessary significance in their own day.
After introductions and the necessary sign-in paper work was complete it was decided to assign Ms. Turnbull a second floor room.
Nearly all the cable companies possess their own steamers, of sufficient dimensions and specially equipped for making ordinary repairs; but for exceptional cases, where a considerable quantity of new cable may have to be inserted, it may be necessary to charter the services of one of the larger vessels owned by a cable-manufacturing company, at a certain sum per day, which may well reach £200 to £300.
The next attempt at laying an Atlantic cable was made in 1865, the necessary capital being again raised in England.
A change of climate, however, is imperatively necessary every five or six years, and the children of European parents should not be kept in the peninsula after they have attained the age of four or five years.
In describing the mean distribution of temperature in the waters of the Atlantic it is necessary to treat the northern and southern divisions separately.
At the end of 1588 he went to Padua, to take his degree in canon and civil law, a necessary prelude in Savoy at that time to distinction in a civil career.
The cups are placed symmetrically on the end of the arms, and it is easy to see that the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it; the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross also faces the wind, but the pressure on it is naturally less, and hence a continual rotation is produced; each cup in turn as it comes round providing the necessary force.
The shaft of P can be readily put in gear with a powerful engine for the purpose of hauling back the cable should it be found necessary to do so.
Repeaters (or translators, as they are sometimes termed) are in Great Britain only used on fast-speed circuits; they are in no case found necessary on circuits worked by hand, or at " key speed " as it is called.
The necessary condition for a successful system of telephony is the ability to reproduce these characteristics.
Calls are registered by pressing a key, which connects a battery through a position meter of very low resistance to the socket of the line jack, thereby furnishing the necessary energy to the meter.
After the consolidation of the companies in1889-1890the profits declined, patent rights had expired, material reductions were made in the rates for telephone services, and considerable replacements of plant became necessary, the cost of which was charged to revenue.
At last it became necessary to kill him, and, when Helen next asked to go and see him, I told her that he was DEAD.
For this object it is necessary that...
So she decided that it was necessary to prepare the opinion of society.
For my action to be free it was necessary that it should encounter no obstacles.
Frequent breaks were absolutely necessary and exhaustion was a never ending condition.
This duty was about as pleasant as a stick in the eye in Dean's mind, but the interrupted householders were uniformly pleasant to him, making the necessary ordeal nearly tolerable.
They then must be considered as representing an extremely primitive type of mankind, and it is necessary to look far afield for their prehistoric home.
The powers and rights of existing colonies to remain intact, except as regards such powers as it may be necessary to hand over to the Federal government.
Provision was made for necessary alteration of the constitution of the Commonwealth, but so that no alteration could be effected unless the question had been directly submitted to, and the change accepted by the electorate in the states.
It may perhaps be fairly said that materialism is at present a necessary methodological postulate of natural-scientific inquiry.