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What is another word for
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Something which is required for a given purpose
The state or fact of being required
The state of being unavoidable
A situation enforcing a certain course of action
The state or quality of being poor or destitute
(
used with for
)
A reason for a particular feeling or emotion
An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way
Quality or state of being compulsory
Force
Lack of the ability to do something
The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God or by fate
Reliance on someone or something for financial support
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Noun
▲
Something which is required for a given purpose
essential
requisite
need
requirement
fundamental
necessary
prerequisite
must
basic
condition
essentiality
exigency
essence
imperative
indispensable
needful
precondition
stipulation
vital
want
demand
essential requirement
must-have
lifeblood
vital part
indispensable item
indispensable thing
sine qua non
essential item
necessary item
life or death
part and parcel
qualification
postulate
obligation
proviso
rule
provision
specification
contingency
exception
reservation
terms
exemption
kicker
catch
arrangement
strings
article
necessary condition
fine print
small print
modification
desideratum
codicil
constraint
urgency
criterion
desire
duty
market
necessary thing
wish
charge
priority
rudiment
essential condition
obligatory condition
necessitude
restriction
clause
quintessence
restraint
limitation
staple
rider
term
gap
stricture
commitment
devoir
check
fetter
circumscription
call
claim
not to be missed
inferiority
lack
imposition
behest
mandate
insistence
exaction
ultimatum
requisition
pressure
imploration
bidding
drive
expectation
reliance
hope
dream
allowance
objective
ideal
goal
aim
tempering
adaptation
alteration
caveat
amendment
refinement
if
mitigation
objection
softening
lessening
revision
adjustment
moderation
reduction
aspiration
desired thing
missing thing
needed thing
heart's desire
more ❯
“An active lifestyle is a
necessity
for healthy living.”
Noun
▲
The state or fact of being required
indispensability
need
needfulness
essentiality
imperative
requirement
urgency
exigency
crisis
difficulty
emergency
extremity
plight
predicament
scrape
strait
crunch
juncture
clutch
pinch
pass
pressure
zero hour
demand
turning point
hardship
want
stress
fix
quandary
jam
conjuncture
crossroads
tinderbox
pickle
head
Dunkirk
contingency
exigence
distress
dilemma
breaking point
crossroad
boiling point
crunch time
flash point
vicissitude
panic stations
tight spot
uphill
oppression
box
needs
exigencies
requirements
demands
tight squeeze
danger
accident
disaster
calamity
catastrophe
mess
hole
tight corner
spot
urgent situation
impasse
misadventure
trauma
tension
desperate straits
push
squeeze
meltdown
climax
compulsion
dire straits
tragedy
unforeseen circumstances
depression
hot water
critical situation
constraint
demandingness
acuteness
wont
imperativeness
criticalness
pressingness
requisite
essential
duress
trouble
adversity
quagmire
mire
cataclysm
fiasco
problem
setback
conundrum
imbroglio
sticky situation
sad state
tricky situation
spot of bother
train wreck
hell on earth
tight situation
upheaval
turmoil
bind
blow
complication
debacle
tribulation
havoc
entanglement
perplexity
mishap
drama
hell
muddle
shambles
horror
hard times
worst-case scenario
sorry condition
no-win situation
awkward situation
problematic situation
unfortunate situation
car crash
difficult situation
chaos
issue
disorder
disarray
failure
crash
collapse
scourge
devastation
misfortune
apocalypse
affliction
deep water
bad news
big trouble
hang-up
reversal of fortune
double trouble
botched situation
test
spectacle
commotion
fuss
incident
scene
melodrama
disturbance
business
affair
adventure
circumstance
occasion
row
fracas
thrill
excitement
sensation
trying time
decisive moment
farce
to-do
tear-jerker
hour of decision
stew
reversal
reverse
ruin
blight
confusion
whammy
shock
monstrosity
hassle
situation
desolation
embarrassment
holocaust
bomb
woe
trial
shipwreck
disorderliness
messiness
bust
puzzle
worst case
heavy blow
worst outcome
rabbit hole
vicious circle
hot potato
stroke of ill luck
worst that could happen
worst possible outcome
worst comes to worst
more ❯
“The
necessity
of having devoted teachers cannot be understated.”
Noun
▲
The state of being unavoidable
inevitability
certainty
ineluctability
inexorability
unavoidability
inescapability
inexorableness
inevitableness
sureness
unavoidableness
shoo-in
requirement
obligation
fact
cert
reality
surety
predictable result
certain winner
foregone conclusion
consequence
racing certainty
surefire
sure thing
matter of course
dead cert
sure-fire winner
inevitable result
sure bet
open and shut case
all sewn up
safe bet
lock
fate
cinch
assurance
destiny
guarantee
predictability
dead certainty
inevitable consequence
certain thing
odds-on chance
open-and-shut case
small risk
more ❯
“However, no systematic rules for the
necessity
of a certain sequence have been recognized.”
Noun
▲
A situation enforcing a certain course of action
need
obligation
urgency
call
crisis
duty
exigency
gravity
responsibility
commitment
emergency
desperation
imperativeness
force of circumstance
pressure of circumstance
force majeure
pressure
compulsion
coercion
conscience
importance
seriousness
hurry
extremity
weightiness
weight
cruciality
haste
momentousness
criticality
imminence
stress
incitement
rush
top priority
importunity
instancy
“He had to work harder than ever, more out of
necessity
than by choice.”
Noun
▲
The state or quality of being poor or destitute
poverty
destitution
indigence
neediness
penury
want
impoverishment
need
privation
beggary
destituteness
pauperism
penuriousness
scarcity
deprivation
extremity
impecuniosity
impecuniousness
pauperdom
poorness
bankruptcy
insolvency
pennilessness
hand-to-mouth existence
hardship
distress
lack
debt
meagerness
shortage
deficiency
paucity
insufficiency
depletion
starvation
difficulty
straits
necessitousness
underdevelopment
abjection
dearth
barrenness
famine
inadequacy
deficit
emptiness
aridity
exiguity
pinch
pass
vacancy
reduction
ruin
straitened circumstances
disadvantage
mendicancy
reduced circumstances
ruination
difficulties
vagrancy
dire straits
misery
mendicity
extreme poverty
dire poverty
financial distress
primary poverty
scantiness
sparseness
suffering
loss
austerity
affliction
administration
indebtedness
liquidation
receivership
begging
wretchedness
adversity
indigency
utter poverty
financial ruin
narrow circumstances
life on the breadline
failure
hard knocks
desperate straits
hock
rough going
stress
troubles
trouble
misfortune
calamity
grief
tribulation
trial
burden
bad luck
torment
jam
drag
downer
pickle
hassle
exigency
crunch
disaster
discomfort
hazard
injury
throe
scrape
travail
rigor
US
grievance
worry
travails
rigour
UK
catastrophe
vicissitude
bummer
tough luck
ill-luck
tough break
unholy mess
ill luck
rotten luck
hot water
hard time
ticklish spot
can of worms
ill-fortune
holy mess
hard times
more ❯
“It was a tough period where we were reduced to begging through
necessity
.”
Noun
▲
(
used with for
)
A reason for a particular feeling or emotion
cause
reason
basis
call
pretext
stimulus
need
grounds
justification
occasion
provocation
consideration
ground
excuse
right
claim
pretence
UK
pretense
US
pretension
motive
inducement
rationale
antecedent
incentive
requirement
causality
causation
foundation
warrant
purpose
motivation
explanation
influence
prompting
obligation
determinant
Noun
▲
An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way
compulsion
need
urge
drive
obsession
desire
impulse
longing
motivation
addiction
fixation
jones
preoccupation
pull
temptation
demand
requirement
wish
appetite
yearning
craving
fancy
hankering
market
ambition
aspiration
dream
want
inclination
requisite
lust
passion
propensity
proclivity
predilection
hunger
pining
thirst
urgency
use
occasion
call
cause
deficiency
desideratum
scarceness
dearth
focus
covetousness
exigence
scantiness
lustfulness
fervor
US
exigency
fervour
UK
support
needfulness
absence
scarcity
eagerness
expectation
cry out
imperative
deficit
strong interest
necessitude
drought
hope
objective
intent
goal
purpose
disposition
predisposition
yearn
relish
zeal
ache
aim
pursuit
motive
penchant
yen
endeavor
US
essential
whim
impetus
preference
fire in the belly
endeavour
UK
will
more ❯
Noun
▲
Quality or state of being compulsory
compulsoriness
obligatoriness
requiredness
requisiteness
bindingness
essentiality
imperativeness
inescapability
unavoidability
Noun
▲
Force
constraint
force
pressure
coercion
compulsion
duress
arm-twisting
driving
goad
hang-up
impelling
impulsion
monkey
motive
no-no
restraint
spring
spur
violence
a must
enforcement
intimidation
pressurization
US
pressurisation
UK
oppression
threats
harassment
influence
demand
obligation
insistence
persuasion
threat
exaction
force majeure
provocation
entreaty
badgering
pestering
nagging
goading
harrying
extortion
foul play
requirement
sway
power
pains
conscription
strong arm
imprisonment
browbeating
bullying
threatening
menacing
menace
strong-arming
captivity
hardship
confinement
incarceration
discipline
detention
bondage
control
strong-arm tactics
strong-arm tactic
strong arm tactics
urgency
engrossment
exigency
prepossession
preoccupation
craving
duty
tiger by the tail
have on the brain
terrorization
menaces
railroading
thunder
domineerings
browbeatings
extortions
comminations
ultimatums
blackmail
houndings
threatenings
menacings
warnings
harryings
fulmination
terrifying
alarming
scaring
pressuring
subduing
pressurizing
US
unnerving
domineering
cowing
terrorizing
US
tormenting
frightening
daunting
persecution
plaguing
tyrannization
hounding
fear
demoralizing
US
steamrollering
bulldozing
demoralising
UK
terrorising
UK
pressurising
UK
scare tactics
more ❯
Noun
▲
Lack of the ability to do something
inability
incapability
impotence
incapacity
incompetence
ineptitude
powerlessness
inadequacy
ineffectiveness
insufficiency
uselessness
ineptness
helplessness
inaptitude
incompetency
inefficacy
unfitness
disqualification
failure
frailty
hopelessness
incapacitation
ineffectualness
inefficiency
inutility
lack
shortcoming
weakness
lack of ability
ineffectuality
subjection
defenselessness
clumsiness
lack of skill
inexpertness
awkwardness
maladroitness
amateurishness
deficiency
unsuitableness
disability
impairment
lack of proficiency
debility
inexperience
injury
unreadiness
cack-handedness
skill-lessness
ham-fistedness
stupidity
unskillfulness
gaucheness
inappropriateness
pointlessness
absurdity
unhandiness
indisposition
unsuitability
ungracefulness
feebleness
inferiority
inaptness
faultiness
defectiveness
substandardness
unsatisfactoriness
infirmity
condition
affliction
disorder
ailment
dysfunction
disablement
defect
handicap
malady
illness
disease
complaint
abnormality
detriment
invalidity
drawback
disadvantage
learning disability
restriction
ill health
learning difficulties
special needs
more ❯
Noun
▲
The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God or by fate
predestination
destiny
fate
predetermination
doom
election
foreordainment
foreordination
fortune
inevitability
karma
kismet
lot
ordinance
portion
preordainment
preordination
divine decree
God's will
course of events
what is written
way the ball bounces
way the cookie crumbles
circumstance
luck
stars
providence
chance
fortuity
serendipity
divine will
what is written in the stars
circumstances
Moirai
Lady Luck
handwriting on the wall
condition
hazard
horoscope
astral influence
break
breaks
destination
wheel of fortune
the stars
Dame Fortune
what is in the books
God's plan
nemesis
accident
Providence
predestiny
end
heritage
cup
dole
inescapableness
wyrd
orlay
divine intervention
coincidence
situation
state
position
plight
writing on the wall
what is to come
predicament
way cookie crumbles
hand one is dealt
outside influence
history
experiences
success
life
adventures
means
expectation
star
fifty-fifty
experience
fluke
certainty
contingency
sentence
decision
decree
verdict
condemnation
judgment
US
roll of the dice
run of luck
good break
lucked out
lucky break
lucky hit
streak of luck
lucked into
fighting chance
lap of the gods
Judgment Day
Moira
misfortune
judgement
UK
cataclysm
opinion
tragedy
fixed future
conclusion
calamity
trouble
handwriting on wall
afterlife
Fates
Norns
Parcae
more ❯
Noun
▲
Reliance on someone or something for financial support
dependence
confidence
hope
reliance
trust
assurance
belief
credence
expectance
faith
leaning on
need
need for
reliance on
requirement
want
belief in
clinging to
confidence in
faith in
seeking support from
trust in
certainty
stock
conviction
store
certitude
acceptance
sureness
credit
hopefulness
optimism
loyalty
surety
expectation
traction
entrustment
support
assuredness
freedom from doubt
freedom from suspicion
swallowing
cocksureness
doubtlessness
dependence on
credence in
face
satisfaction
accepting
weight
admission
authority
admitting
positiveness
sure bet
devotion
devotedness
faithfulness
dedication
commitment
fidelity
constancy
steadfastness
allegiance
piety
fealty
troth
attachment
credulity
assent
adhesion
fastness
more ❯
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