Definitions for must

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must must

Spelling: [muhst]

IPA: /mʌst/

Must is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in must (mstu).

Definitions for must

noun

1. something necessary, vital, or required:
2. new wine; the unfermented juice as pressed from the grape or other fruit.
3. mold; moldiness; mustiness:
4. musth.
5. musk, especially a powder made from musk.
6. a state or condition of violent, destructive frenzy occurring with the rutting season in male elephants, accompanied by the exudation of an oily substance from glands between the eyes and mouth.

adjective

1. necessary; vital:

auxiliary verb

1. to be obliged or bound to by an imperative requirement:
2. to be under the necessity to; need to:
3. to be required or compelled to, as by the use or threat of force:
4. to be compelled to in order to fulfill some need or achieve an aim:
5. to be forced to, as by convention or the requirements of honesty:
6. to be or feel urged to; ought to:
7. to be reasonably expected to; is bound to:
8. to be inevitably certain to; be compelled by nature:

verb (used with object)

1. to powder (the hair).

verb (used without object)

1. to be obliged; be compelled:
2. Archaic. (sometimes used with ellipsis of go, get, or some similar verb readily understood from the context):

Origin of must

before 900; Middle English most(e), Old English mōste (past tense); cognate with German musste. See mote²