Definitions for necessaries

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necessaries nec·es·sar·y

Spelling: [nes-uh-ser-ee]

IPA: /ˈnɛs əˌsɛr i/

Necessaries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 516 anagrams from letters in necessaries (aceeeinrsss).

Definitions for necessaries

noun

1. something necessary or required for a particular purpose; necessity.
2. necessaries, Law. food, clothing, etc., required by a dependent or incompetent and varying with his or her social or economic position or that of the person upon whom he or she is dependent.
3. Chiefly New England. a privy or toilet.

adjective

1. being essential, indispensable, or requisite:
2. happening or existing by necessity:
3. acting or proceeding from compulsion or necessity; not free; involuntary:
4. Logic. (of a proposition) such that a denial of it involves a self-contradiction. (of an inference or argument) such that its conclusion cannot be false if its supporting premises are true. (of a condition) such that it must exist if a given event is to occur or a given thing is to exist. Compare sufficient (def 2).

Origin of necessaries

1300-50; Middle English necessarie Latin necessārius unavoidable, inevitable, needful, equivalent to necess(e) (neuter indeclinable adj.) unavoidable, necessary + -ārius -

Examples for necessaries

And how long do you expect your body to be equal to providing the necessaries of life for hire?

The produce of the farm is amply sufficient to provide them with all necessaries.

Who fetches you your silks, and your linens, and your wines, and all the other necessaries of life?

And thus much of the Husbandmans house, and the necessaries there to belonging.

It must have been sheer withholding the necessaries of life.

Victuals and other necessaries of life had long since been running low.

Powder and other necessaries he obtained from frontier trading-stations.

He left me only to go in quest of the necessaries for our journey.

The worst is, they are most of them not necessaries but luxuries.

Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life.