English > necessitate: 2 senses > verb 1, stative| Meaning | require as useful, just, or proper. |
|---|
| Pattern | It ----s that CLAUSE |
|---|
| Synonyms | ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand |
|---|
| Narrower | claim, take, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
|---|
| compel | Necessitate or exact |
| cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice |
| cry out for, cry for | Need badly or desperately |
| draw | require a specified depth for floating |
| govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood |
| Opposite | obviate, rid of, eliminate | Do away with |
|---|
| Similar to | claim, take, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
|---|
| Spanish | demandar, exigir, implicar, involucrar, necesitar, pedir, precisar, preguntar, reclamar, requerir, solicitar |
|---|
| Catalan | exigir, implicar, involucrar, necessitar, precisar, preguntar, reclamar, requerir |
|---|
| Nouns | necessity | anything indispensable / indispensable |
|---|
| necessity | the condition of being essential or indispensable |
