necessary

Definition

  • adjective: so important that you must do it or have it
  • adjective: of an inevitable nature
  • synonyms: absolute, apodictic, backhouse

Examples

  • There is no 'necessary connection' between what is legal and what is moral. [=what is legal does not always have to be moral and what is moral does not always have to be legal]

  • Higher prices are a 'necessary consequence' of the company's new services.

  • I'll 'do the necessary' [=do whatever is necessary] to get the job done.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) How long until that core ignites? - That bomb goes off in hours. - Unless we can reconnect it to the reactor. - Can you get Miranda out of here? - Not tonight. I'm sorry. - Do what's necessary. - Tonight I need you. - What for? - To get me back in the game. Sorry to spoil things, boys, (..)
    2012 The Dark Knight Rises
  • (..) - What are you? - I'm Gotham's reckoning. Here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on. You're... pure evil. I'm necessary evil. No. No, no, no! When you started, why the mask? - To protect the people closest to me. - Yet you were a loner, right? - You didn't have any family? (..)
    2012 The Dark Knight Rises