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What is the adjective for necessary?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb necessitate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

necessary
  1. Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
  2. Unavoidable, inevitable.
  3. (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. required, essential, needed, requisite, vital, indispensable, needful, demanded, important, key, central, consequential, intrinsic, must-have, pivotal, all-important, core, critical, integral, necessitous, appropriate, called for, high priority, high-priority, inherent, innate, rudimentary, substantive, all important, basic, binding, bottom-line, cardinal, chief, compelling, crucial, decisive, desired, elementary, exigent, expedient, fundamental, momentous, paramount, preferred, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, proper … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Expensive and advanced equipment is necessary for us to produce a high-quality film.”
      “We are required to follow the necessary laws and regulations concerning procurement.”
      “In this case, the application of such stringent sanctions is a necessary consequence.”
necessitous
  1. (archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.
  2. Lacking; required.
  3. Necessary; unavoidable.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. destitute, poor, needy, impoverished, impecunious, penurious, indigent, penniless, broke, skint, beggared, pauperized, needful, beggarly, threadbare, famished, strapped, moneyless, underprivileged, bankrupt, insolvent, disadvantaged, flat, unprosperous, pinched, reduced, suffering, fortuneless, low, meagre, meager, scanty, poverty-stricken, hard up, dirt-poor, in want, in need, flat broke, down-and-out, badly off, in straitened circumstances, on the breadline, stone broke, in reduced circumstances, as poor as a church mouse, dirt poor, in Queer Street, without two pennies to rub together, unable to make ends meet, on one's uppers … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The necessitous family struggled to make ends meet with their meager income.”
      “The safety measures taken during the construction were necessitous to prevent accidents.”
      “The patient's necessitous condition required immediate medical intervention.”
necessitative
  1. (grammar) Being or relating to a grammatical form that indicates necessity.
necessitied
  1. (obsolete) In a state of want; necessitous.
necessariest
  1. superlative form of necessary: most necessary
necessitated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of necessitate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. asked, involved, needed, demanded, required, took, comprised, concerned, encompassed, included, warranted, commanded, entailed, wanted, imposed, postulated, called for, consisted of, claimed, obliged, meant, meaned, taken, beared, challenged, exacted, expected, occasioned, asked for, implied, compelled, justified, made necessary, cried out for, forced, bore, borne, constrained, impelled, stipulated, dictated, insisted on, behooved, extorted, lasted, lacked, had need for, stood in need of, craved, made … more
necessitating
  1. present participle of necessitate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. demanding, requiring, warranting, involving, calling for, compelling, constraining, entailing, exacting, forcing, obliging, bearing, challenging, claiming, impelling, meaning, needing, taking, wanting, asking, behoving, behooving, causing, coercing, commanding, craving, dictating, driving, imposing, making, making necessary, postulating, leaving no choice but to, expecting, occasioning, encompassing, implying, justifying, asking for, including, crying out for, stipulating, insisting on, comprising, concerning, extorting, lacking, presupposing, supposing, enforcing … more
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