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necessitate

Syllables: ne·ces·sit·ate/nɪˈsɛsɪteɪt/US/nəˈsɛsəˌteɪt/

necessitate verb: to make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.

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Verb

necessitate (third-person singular simple present necessitates, present participle necessitating, simple past and past participle necessitated)

  1. (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
    • The early departure of her plane necessitated her waking up at 4 a.m.
    • And this to be a duty, […] ſpeciall that of loving God with all thy heart, &c. beſides manifold more in Scripture; But even the Law of Nature neceſſitates to it, whether we conſider God, or our ſelves, our ſoules, ſpecially.1645, Daniel Cawdrey [i.e., Daniel Cawdry]; Herbert Palmer, “Solemne Worship is Morall Naturall; both Solitary, and Conjoyned, in Families, and Churches; and How Farre”, in Sabbatum Redivivum: Or The...
  2. To force (a person) into a certain course of action; compel.
    • The 26th of August was still colder than the day previous. Ice formed in all our water-vessels, and one was necessitated to the brisker kind of exercise in order to keep warm.1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 37

necessitate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

necessitate in Tamil

இன்றியமையாததாக்கு, தவிர்க்க முடியாத படி செய், தவிர்க்க இயலாததாக்கு, அவசியமாக்கு, கட்டாயப்படுத்து, சொத்துரிமைக் கட்டுப்பாடு செய்

necessitate in Urdu

مجبور کر دینا, ضروری کر دینا

necessitate in Bengali

আবশ্যিক

necessitate in Malayalam

നിർബന്ധപ്പെടുത്തുക, വേണ്ടി വരിക, ആവശ്യമായിവരിക
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necessitate in Persian
واداشتن vâdâštan

Examples of necessitate in a sentence

  • Wear-and-tear of the track necessitates frequent attention by the civil engineers and possessions are hard to obtain without reducing the throughput of trains.1962 July, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Increasing Swiss Federal route capacities”, in Modern Railways, page 58:
  • Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate.2014 April 19, Mark Oppenheimer, “Let Them Drink Chocolate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, retrieved 16...

All 40 example sentences with necessitate

Forms of necessitate

third-person singular presentnecessitates
present participlenecessitating
past participlenecessitated
pastnecessitated

Past tense of necessitate: necessitated

Origin of necessitate

From earlier necessitat, from Medieval Latin necessitātus, perfect past participle of necessitō (“to make necessary”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)), from Classical Latin necessitās (“necessity, need”) + -ō. Necessitās is derived from necesse (“unavoidable”) (from ne- (“not”) + cessus (“conceded, given up, yielded”). By surface analysis, necessitō + -ate.

Words formed from necessitate

Questions about necessitate

What does necessitate mean?
Necessitate means to make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about.
What is necessitate in Tamil?
Necessitate in Tamil is இன்றியமையாததாக்கு, தவிர்க்க முடியாத படி செய், தவிர்க்க இயலாததாக்கு. See Necessitate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use necessitate in a sentence?
Wear-and-tear of the track necessitates frequent attention by the civil engineers and possessions are hard to obtain without reducing the throughput of trains.
What part of speech is necessitate?
Necessitate is a verb.
How do you pronounce necessitate?
Necessitate is pronounced /nɪˈsɛsɪteɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of necessitate?
The past tense of necessitate is necessitated.

Words near necessitate in the dictionary

  1. necessitarian
  2. necessitarianism
  3. necessitarianisms
  4. necessitarians
  5. Necessitas
  6. necessitate
  7. necessitated
  8. necessitatedly
  9. necessitates
  10. necessitateth
  11. necessitating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: necessitate (page history and authors); necessitate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); necessitate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); necessitate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); necessitate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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