Reverse Dictionary: NECESSARY

ADJECTIVES
► BEHOOVEFUL ► BEHOVEFUL useful, of use; advantageous, expedient; needful, necessary, due → 1382 arch.
► BEHOVELY useful, profitable; needful, necessary → c950 obs.
► EQUINECESSARY needful in an equal degree; equally necessary → 1663 obs.
► FORCEPUT necessary → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NECESS necessary → 1456 obs.
► NECESSAIRE necessary → c1374 obs.
► NECESSAR necessary → c1375 Sc.
► NECESSARIOUS necessary → c1386 obs.
► NECESSITABLE subject to necessity → 1673 obs.
► NECESSITAT necessitated, compelled → 1631 Sc. obs.
► NECESSITATE compelled by necessity → 1700 Sc. 
► NECESSITATED of persons or their condition: reduced to necessity or want → 1646 obs.
► NECESSITIED brought into necessity → 1601 obs.
► NECESSITOUS necessary, requisite → 1742 obs.
► NEEDCESSITOUS necessary, needful → 1839 Sc. 
► NEEDFUL of persons: needy, necessitous → a1175
► NEEDSOME marked by necessity; necessary → c1650 obs.
► NEEDY necessary, required → 1487 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
► NESESSE necessary → 1456 obs.
► SINE QUA NON indispensable, absolutely necessary or essential → 1615
► WANTING 1. lacking in money or necessaries of life, needy, necessitous → a1616 obs.
2. needful, requisite, necessary → 1756 obs.

ADVERBS
► BEHOVEFULLY usefully, profitably, duly; necessarily → 1443 obs.
► BEHOVELY usefully, needfully, necessarily → c1430 obs.
► FAINS of necessity; necessarily → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NECESSARILY by force of necessity; unavoidably → 1488-9 obs.
► NECESSARLY necessarily → 1566 Sc.
► NECESSITIVELY by necessity → 1647 obs.
► NEED of necessity, necessarily → c893 obs.
► NEEDFULLY necessarily, upon compulsion or constraint; urgently, pressingly → a1340
► NEED-GATES of necessity → c1375 obs.
► NEEDILY necessarily → 1577-87 obs.
► NEEDINGS of necessity → a1300 obs.
► NEEDLING necessarily → a1225 obs.
► NEEDLINGS ► NEEDLINS necessarily; of necessity → a1300 obs. exc. N. Eng. dial.
► NEEDLY necessarily → 1303 obs.
► NEEDS COST necessarily → c1385 obs.
► NEEDSLY necessarily → c1449 obs.
► NEEDWAYS necessarily; by necessity → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.

NOUNS
► BARE BONE ESSENTIALS necessities, as food, toiletries, etc. → Bk1995 US sl.
► BLUE NEED dire necessity → 1884 Eng. dial.
► CASION occasion, need, cause, necessity → 1824 Eng. dial.
► COMPUSH urgency, compulsion, necessity → 1905 Amer. dial.
► COMPUSHENCY necessity; compulsion → 1913-17 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► COMPUSHITY urgency, necessity; compulsion → 1911 Amer. dial.
► DAYLIGHT bare necessities → Irish sl.
► DUEPUSHENCY urgent necessity, urgency, emergency → 1942 Amer. dial.
► FULL MONTY, THE everything which is necessary, appropriate, or possible; the works → 1979 sl.
► FUNDAMENTALS fundamental requisites; necessities → 1864
► FURNITURE provisions, stores in general; necessaries → 1549 obs.
► GANG WATER (enough money for) the bare necessaries of life → 1949 Sc.
► MISTER need, want, necessity → 1641 Sc. obs.
► NECESS necessity → a1460 obs.
► NECESSARINESS the fact of being necessary; indispensability, necessity → 1551
► NECESSARS necessary things → 1596 Sc. obs.
► NECESSITUDE 1. a necessity of something → 1677 obs.
2. need, necessity → 1839
► NEED-BE an essential or necessary reason; a necessity; something compulsory, indispensable, or requisite → 1728
► NEEDCESSITIES necessities of life → 1885 Sc.
► NEEDCESSITY necessity, a state of need → 1706 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
► NEEDFUL a necessary thing → 1856
► NEEDFUL, THE what is necessary or requisite → 1709
► NEEDFULS necessaries → 1863 Sc.
► NEEDING a necessary act → c1475 obs.
► NEEDMENT a necessity → 1930 Amer. dial.
► NEEDMENTS things needed; necessaries; personal requisites carried as luggage → 1590
► NEEDS-BE a necessity; an expediency → 1727 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► NEPUSHENCY necessity, push, and urgency → 1934 Amer. dial.
► NESSIPUSHETY necessity, push, and urgency → 1942 Amer. dial.
► OCCASION needs, necessities → 1822 Sc.
► PLEMENT something necessary to make a thing complete; an essential or important constituent part → 1632 obs.
► PUSHENCY urgent necessity, urgency, emergency → 1896 Amer. dial.
► QUORUM necessary materials → 1650 obs.
► RIGHT STUFF, THE the necessary qualities for a given job or task → 1775 colloq., chiefly US
► SKIPPESON equipment, provision of necessaries → 1444 obs.
► TIE obligation, moral compulsion; necessity; constraint, burden, care → 1724-32 Eng. dial.
► WOODCHUCK CASE a situation of necessity, one in which there is no choice, as a marriage that takes place because a baby is on the way → 1862 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► BEHOOVE ► BEHOVE to be physically of use, needful, or necessary to → 1154 obs.
► DO ONE’S DO to do what is necessary; to do what one must do → 20C US sl.
► DO ONE’S NEEDS to do that which is necessary → 1896 Sc.
► FATALIZE to render subject to fate or inevitable necessity → 1876
► NECESS to compel, to necessitate → c1374 obs.
► NECESSITE to necessitate → 1600 obs.
► NECESSITY to necessitate → 1817 obs.
► NEEDCESSITATE to force, to necessitate → 1700 Sc. obs.
► SET ONE UP WITH SALT to provide the necessaries of life for one → 1881 Sc.