Library / English Dictionary

NECESSITATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Require as useful, just, or proper

Example:

This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent

Synonyms:

ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; postulate; require; take

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Verb group:

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "necessitate"):

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

govern (require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood)

draw (require a specified depth for floating)

cost (require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice)

cry for; cry out for (need badly or desperately)

compel (necessitate or exact)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
It ----s that CLAUSE

Antonym:

obviate (do away with)

Derivation:

necessity (anything indispensable)

necessity (the condition of being essential or indispensable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be a concomitant

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "necessitate" is one way to...):

lead (tend to or result in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "necessitate"):

entail; imply; mean (have as a logical consequence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits