Necessary vs. Required

Necessaryadjective

Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.

Necessaryadjective

Unavoidable, inevitable.

Necessaryadjective

(obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.

Necessarynoun

A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.

Necessaryadjective

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.

Necessaryadjective

Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requisite; essential.

Necessaryadjective

Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

Necessarynoun

A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.

Necessarynoun

A privy; a water-closet.

Necessarynoun

Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

Necessarynoun

anything indispensable;

Necessaryadjective

absolutely essential

Necessaryadjective

unavoidably determined by prior circumstances;

Requiredverb

simple past tense and past participle of require

Requiredadjective

Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.

Requiredadjective

necessary for relief or supply;

Requiredadjective

required by rule;