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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun)
part of speech: |
noun |
inflections: |
necessities |
definition 1: |
a person or thing that is required or indispensable.
the necessities for good health- synonyms:
- essential, indispensable, must, necessary, need, requirement, requisite
- antonyms:
- luxury
- similar words:
- condition, fundamental, imperative, obligation, requisition, sine qua non, staple, want
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definition 2: |
the state or condition of being necessary.
- synonyms:
- indispensability, requisiteness
- similar words:
- essential
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definition 3: |
need; want.
a condition of extreme necessity for lack of money- synonyms:
- destitution, indigence, need, penury, poverty, privation, want
- similar words:
- call, dearth, lack, pinch, scarcity, straits
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definition 4: |
unalterable circumstances; compulsion.
- synonyms:
- compulsion, inevitability, necessitation
- similar words:
- confinement, constraint, obligation
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related words: |
demand, desire, postulate, prerequisite, use, want |
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