necessary synonyms
necessary
modif.
Essential
essential, requisite, expedient, needful, indispensable, needed, required, urgent, wanted, imperative, prerequisite, exigent, pressing, vital, cardinal, fundamental, significant, momentous, compulsory, mandatory, basic, paramount, obligatory, essential, compelling, incumbent on, incumbent upon, all-important, nuts-and-bolts, binding, specified, unavoidable, decisive, crucial, elementary, quintessential, chief, principal, prime, intrinsic, fixed, constant, permanent, determinate, inherent, ingrained, innate, without choice, without appeal; see also important 1.Antonyms
unimportant*, unessential*, insignificant. * Inevitable
unavoidable, undeniable, assured; see certain 2, imminent, inevitable.
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