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Main Entry:
require [ri-kwahyuhr]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: need, want
Synonyms: crave, depend upon, desire, feel necessity for, have need, hurting for, lack, miss, stand in need, wish
Antonyms: dislike, have, not want
Main Entry: required/requisite
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: necessary
Synonyms: appropriate, called for, compulsatory, compulsory, condign, demanded, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, needful, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital
Antonyms: nonessential, optional, unnecessary
Main Entry: required
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: necessary
Synonyms: appropriate, called for, compulsatory, compulsory, condign, demanded, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, needful, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, requisite, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital
Antonyms: inessential, optional
Example Sentences
  • With scorching temperatures rising into triple digits, players are also required to take water breaks.
  • Three years teaching in the public schools is required.
  • The fertility rate required in a country to keep its population steady.
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Main Entry: adjure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: command
Synonyms: beseech, charge, entreat, implore, obligate, order, require, supplicate
Notes: abjure is 'swear off' or 'swear away' and adjure is 'command earnestly'; abjure implies a firm and final rejecting or abandoning often made under oath
Main Entry: appeal
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: request
Synonyms: address, adjure, advance, apply, ask, beg, beseech, bid, call, call upon, claim, contest, crave, demand, entreat, hit on, implore, importune, petition, plead, pray, propose, proposition, question, refer, require, resort to, solicit, strike, submit, sue, supplicate, urge
Antonyms: deny, disclaim, recall, refuse, renounce, retract, revoke
Main Entry: bid
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: ask for; command
Synonyms: call, charge, demand, desire, direct, enjoin, instruct, invite, make a pass at, make a pitch, make a play for, order, proposition, request, require, solicit, summon, tell, warn
Main Entry: bind
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: obligate; restrict
Synonyms: compel, confine, constrain, detain, engage, enslave, force, hamper, hinder, hogtie, indenture, lock up, necessitate, oblige, prescribe, put half nelson on, put lock on, require, restrain, restrict, yoke
Antonyms: allow, free, let, permit, set free
Main Entry: binding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: necessary
Synonyms: bounden, compulsory, conclusive, counted upon, essential, imperative, incumbent on, indissoluble, irrevocable, mandatory, obligatory, required, requisite, unalterable
Main Entry: bound
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obligated; destined
Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, bent, bounden, certain, coerced, compelled, constrained, contracted, doomed, driven, duty-bound, enslaved, fated, firm, forced, having no alternative, impelled, indentured, intent, made, necessitated, obligated, obliged, pledged, pressed, required, restrained, sure, under compulsion, under necessity, urged
Antonyms: allowed, free, permitted, unbounded, unobliged, unrestricted
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