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Definitions of necessary

1. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. absolutely essential Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

4. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Webster Dictionary DB

5. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential. Webster Dictionary DB

6. A privy; a water-closet. Webster Dictionary DB

7. Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station. Webster Dictionary DB

8. Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed. Webster Dictionary DB

9. A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life. Webster Dictionary DB

10. That can not be otherwise; not to be done without; essential; indispensable; as, food is necessary to life; not to be avoided. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

11. A thing which can not be done without. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

12. Necessarily. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

13. Needful: unavoidable: indispensable: not free. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

14. A requisite-used chiefly in pl. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

15. Indispensable; unavoidable. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

16. Something indispensable. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

17. Being such that it must exist, occur, or be true; essential; unavoidable. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

18. Something necessary; an essential requisite. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

19. That must be or cannot be otherwise; indispensable; essential; inevitable; acting from necessity. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

20. Something necessary; a domestic convenience. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

21. That cannot be otherwise; inevitable; essential; acting from necessity or compulsion; decisive by logical consequences. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

22. Something indispensable; an essential. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

23. Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed. mso.anu.edu.au

24. A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life. mso.anu.edu.au

25. As used in jurisprudence, the word "necessary" does not always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to which another may be termed "necessary," cannot exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means neccssanj to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means without which the end would be entirely unattainable. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 310, 413, 4 L. Ed. 579. As to necessary "Damages," "Deposit," "Domicile," "Implication," "Intromission," "Parties," "Repairs," and "Way," see those titles. thelawdictionary.org

26. nes'es-sar-i, adj. that must be: that cannot be otherwise: unavoidable: indispensable: under compulsion: not free.--n. that which cannot be left out or done without (food, &c.)--used chiefly in pl.: a privy.--ns. NECESS[=A]'RIAN, one who holds the doctrine of necessity; NECESS[=A]'RIANISM, the doctrine that the will is not free, but subject to causes without, which determine its action.--adv. NEC'ESSARILY.--n. NEC'ESSARINESS, the state or quality of being necessary.--NECESSARY TRUTHS, such as cannot but be true. [Fr.,--L. necessarius.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

27. Include every thing requisite for the maintenance of life, and particularly food. Medical Lexicon. A Dictionary of Medical Science

28. Indispensable, requisite, (to or for person &c.; it is n. that, to do), requiring to, that must, be done; determined by predestination or natural laws, not by free will, happening or existing by necessity, (of concept or mental process) inevitably resulting from nature of things or the mind, inevitably produced by previous state of things, (of agent) having no independent volition. (N.) thing without which life cannot be maintained (often the nn. of life); (loosely) desirable thing not generally regarded as a luxury; (abs. use of adj.) the n. (slang), money or action needed for a purpose (provide, find, do, the n.). [Latin] Concise Oxford Dictionary

29. n. A thing indispensable to some purpose; used chiefly in the plural;- a privy; a water-closet. Cabinet Dictionary