Synset:essential necessary necessity requirement
Examples:
- 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
Antonyms:inessential
Derivationally Related Form:necessitatenecessaryrequisiteessentialnecessitousrequire
Hypernyms:thing
Inherited Hypernyms:necessitythingphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:desideratummustneedwant
Full Hyponyms:
desideratummustneed