necessaries Definition

necessary
adj

1. Needed; essential; indispensable; that must be done.

Thesaurus: essential, requisite, needful, indispensable, expedient, compulsory, imperative, mandatory, obligatory, required, requisite, vital, incumbent upon, cardinal, quintessential, intrinsic, de rigueur; Antonym: unimportant, unnecessary.
2. That must be; inevitable; inescapable.

Example: a necessary evil
Thesaurus: inevitable, fated, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, unavoidable, certain, imminent.
3. Logically required or unavoidable.
4. Said eg of an agent: not free.

noun necessaries

1. Something that is necessary; an essential item.

Form: necessaries (usually)
2a. humorous, colloq
Money needed for a purpose;
Form: the necessary
2b. humorous, colloq
Action that must be taken.
Form: the necessary

Etymology: 14c: from Latin necessarius, from necesse.