necessary
I
(inescapable) adjective
avoidless, certain, choiceless, compelling, constraining, decided, decreed, designated, destined, expected, fated, fateful, fixed, foreordained, imminent, impending, ineluctable, includible, inevitable, inexorable, irresistible, irrevocable, ordained, sealed, settled, sure, unalterable, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeniable, unevasible, unpreventable
associated concepts: necessary damages, necessary expenses, necessary implication, necessary inference, necessary injury
II
(required) adjective
all-important, basic, binding, bounden, chief, coercive, compelling, compulsory, critical, crucial, demanded, dictated, essential, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, important, imposed, incumbent, indispensable, integral, key, mandatory, necessitated, necessitous, needed, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, prescribed, prime, principal, requisite, requisitioned, significant, strategic, strategical, substantive, urgent, vital
associated concepts: necessary parties
III
noun
essence, essential, essentiality, indispensable thing, necessitas, necessities, necessitousness, necessitude, necessity, need, prerequirement, prerequisite, qualification, requirement, requisite, vitals
associated concepts: duty to provide necessaries, necessaries of life
IV
index
binding, cardinal (basic), central (essential), compelling, compulsory, desideratum, essential (required), exigent, fundamental, imperative, important (urgent), indispensable, integral, mandatory, material (important), need (requirement), obligatory, peremptory (imperative), primary, requisite, unavoidable (inevitable), urgent
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006