Be+necessary+or+needful+for

  • 51want — Synonyms and related words: absence, ache to, adulteration, aim at, ardor, arrearage, ask, awayness, bare cupboard, bare necessities, bare subsistence, be desirous of, be dying to, be found wanting, be hurting for, be in want, be indicated, be… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 52occasion — Synonyms and related words: a leg up, advantage, adventure, affair, antecedent, antecedents, author, bare necessities, base, basis, bear, beget, break, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring on, bring to effect, bring to pass, call, call for,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 53wanted — Synonyms and related words: called for, coveted, desired, essential, hoped for, in demand, indicated, indispensable, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, longed for, necessary, needed, needful, popular, prerequisite, required, requisite,… …

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  • 54behoove — /bi hoohv /, v., behooved, behooving. (chiefly in impersonal use) v.t. 1. to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on: It behooves the court to weigh evidence impartially. 2. to be worthwhile to, as for… …

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  • 55bare necessities — Synonyms and related words: call for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, essential, essentials, indispensable, must, must item, necessaries, necessities, necessity, need, need for, occasion, prerequirement, prerequisite, requirement,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 56desideratum — Synonyms and related words: aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, bare necessities, call for, catch, counsel, dearest wish, demand, demand for, desideration, design, desire, determination, effect, essential, essentials, fixed purpose, forbidden… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 57necessaries — Synonyms and related words: bare necessities, call for, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, essential, essentials, indispensable, must, must item, necessities, necessity, need, need for, occasion, prerequirement, prerequisite,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 58necessity — Synonyms and related words: absolute certainty, absoluteness, act of God, assurance, assuredness, bare cupboard, bare necessities, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, call, call for, cause, certain knowledge, certainness, certainty,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 59requirement — Synonyms and related words: bare necessities, blackmail, call, call for, claim, condition, contribution, demand, demand for, desideration, desideratum, draft, drain, duty, essential, essentials, exaction, extortion, extortionate demand, heavy… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 60indispensable — adj 1. vital, essential, of the essence, important, of the utmost importance; imperative, urgent, exigent, instant, pressing, compelling, high priority, high pressure, life and death or life or death; necessary, needed, needful, called for, in… …

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