[なくてもよい;なくてもいい, nakutemoyoi ; nakutemoii] (exp) (1) (after neg. stem of verb) need not (verb); (not) have to; expressing absence of obligation or necessity; (2) (See 無い) need not have; need not exist [Add to Longdo]
[きゅうすればつうず, kyuusurebatsuuzu] (exp) Necessity is the mother of invention; There is always some way out of a difficulty if you really look for one [Add to Longdo]
[bi4 xu1 pin3, 必需品] necessity; essential (thing) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Necessity \Ne*ces"si*ty\, n.; pl. {Necessities}. [OE. necessite,
F. n['e]cessit['e], L. necessitas, fr. necesse. See
{Necessary}.]
1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or
absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
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2. The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing
need; indigence; want.
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Urge the necessity and state of times. --Shak.
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The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was
in. --Clarendon.
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3. That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite;
something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
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These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights. --Shak.
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What was once to me
Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown
The vast necessity of heart and life. --Tennyson.
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4. That which makes an act or an event unavoidable;
irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical
or moral; fate; fatality.
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So spake the fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
--Milton.
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5. (Metaph.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the
subjection of all phenomena, whether material or
spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
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{Of necessity}, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or
irresistible power; perforce.
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Syn: See {Need}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
necessity
n 1: the condition of being essential or indispensable
2: 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" [syn: {necessity}, {essential}, {requirement},
{requisite}, {necessary}] [ant: {inessential},
{nonessential}]