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necessariest

necessariest is the superlative form of necessary.

Meaning of necessary

Adjective

necessary (comparative necessarier or more necessary, superlative necessariest or most necessary)

  1. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
    • Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
    Antonyms:
    unnecessary
  2. Unavoidable, inevitable.
    • If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
    Synonyms:
    inevitable, natural
  3. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
    • But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, volume I, page 53

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Questions about necessariest

What is necessariest the superlative form of?
Necessariest is the superlative form of necessary.

Words near necessariest in the dictionary

  1. necessarianism
  2. necessarians
  3. necessarie
  4. necessarier
  5. necessaries
  6. necessariest
  7. necessarily
  8. necessariness
  9. necessarium
  10. necessariums
  11. necessarry

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