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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely important |
| Synonyms: | all-important, consequential, critical, crucial, determining, earth-shaking, earth-shattering, essential, imperative, important, indispensable, life or death, meaningful, of vital importance, paramount, pivotal, serious, significant, urgent, vital, vitally important |
| Main Entry: | necessity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
| Synonyms: | call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, essential, exaction, exigency, fundamental, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, must, necessary, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, obligation, pinch, precondition, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, stress, undeniability, urgency, vital part, vitals, want |
| Antonyms: | desire, want |
| Main Entry: | urgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing immediate attention |
| Synonyms: | burning*, called-for, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying*, demanded, demanding, driving, essential, exigent, foremost, heavy*, hurry-up, immediate, impelling, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, insistent, instant, leading, life and death, momentous, necessary, paramount, persuasive, pressing, primary, principal, required, salient, serious, top-priority, touch and go, touchy*, vital, wanted, weighty |
| Antonyms: | moderate, unimportant, unnecessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weighty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serious, important |
| Synonyms: | big, big deal, consequential, considerable, critical, crucial, earnest, forcible, grave, heavy*, heavyweight, life and death, material, meaningful, momentous, no-nonsense, portentous, sedate, severe, significant, sober, solemn, somber, staid, substantial, underlined |
| Antonyms: | inconsequential, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Necessity. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of Volition |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination., necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion; subjection; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be., destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot, fortune; fatalism; inevitableness; spell., star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice., last shift, last resort; dernier ressort; pis aller (stubstitute); necessaries (requirement)., necessarian, necessitarian; fatalist; automaton.
-verbs
lie under a necessity; be fated, be doomed, be destined, be destined for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate to, be pushed to the wall, be driven into a corner, be unable to help., destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell; necessitate; compel.
-adjectives
necessary, needful (requisite)., fated; destined; elect; spellbound., compulsory (compel); uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless, resistless., involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional (undesigned); impulsive.
-adverbs
necessarily; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute., faute de mieux; by stress of; if need be.
-phrases
it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter gvisum; actum me invito factus, non est meus actus;
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| Antonyms: | will |
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