REQUISITE

needed, needful, required, requisite

(adjective) necessary for relief or supply; “provided them with all things needful”

necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary

(noun) anything indispensable; “food and shelter are necessities of life”; “the essentials of the good life”; “allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions”; “a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

requisite (comparative more requisite, superlative most requisite)

Essential, indispensable, required.

Synonyms: necessary, Thesaurus:requisite

Noun

requisite (plural requisites)

An indispensable item; a requirement.

Hyponyms

• prerequisite

Source: Wiktionary


Req"ui*site (rk"w-zt), n.

Definition: That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable. God, on his part, has declared the requisites on ours; what we must do to obtain blessings, is the great business of us all to know. Wake.

Req"ui*site, a. Etym: [L. requisitus, p. p. requirere; pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask. See Require.]

Definition: Required by the nature of things, or by circumstances; All truth requisite for men to know. Milton.

Syn.

– Necessary; needful; indispensable; essential.

– Req"ui*site*ly, adv.

– Req"ui*site*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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