necessities
必需品,必要性,生活必需品,必要的东西
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Definitions
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plural ne·ces·si·ties.
- : something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- : the fact of being necessary or indispensable; indispensability: the necessity of adequate housing.
- : an imperative requirement or need for something: the necessity for a quick decision.
- : the state or fact of being necessary or inevitable: to face the necessity of testifying in court.
- : an unavoidable need or compulsion to do something: not by choice but by necessity.
- : a state of being in financial need; poverty: a family in dire necessity.
- : Philosophy. the quality of following inevitably from logical, physical, or moral laws.
Phrases
- necessity is the mother of invention
- make a virtue of necessity
- of necessity
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
At first, the doctors write, the villagers were “fearful and agitated,” lacking the basic necessities needed to survive.
“It was this idea of prayer, and one of the necessities of the prayer pose being the blindfold,” he explained.
“The government is stuck between [strategic] necessities and its social/political aims,” he said.
Each month, he receives ¥300 ($50) in welfare payments, an amount insufficient to cover the bare necessities.
At the margins, that means more people are able to pay for the necessities of life with their incomes.
He, who knows the dangers and necessities we were in, will appreciate the joy we felt and that we feel at its arrival.
Wasnt it wickedseeminglythat one should have so much money, while another needed the very necessities of life?
Meanwhile, the judicious establishment of free soup kitchens in the streets alleviated the necessities of the mob.
Surely a third class passenger is entitled at least to the bare necessities of life.
Its folds are ample, to remind us that all who have recourse to her find a secure refuge in all dangers and necessities.