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/ˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/
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Essential, indispensable, required.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Please submit the requisite papers before the end of the financial year.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: discretionary, elective, facultative, free, noncompulsory, nonmandatory, nonobligate, nonobligatory, nonrequired, nonrequisite, optional, optionary, unrequired, volitional, voluntary
An indispensable item; a requirement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
necessary for relief or supply
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
provided them with all things needful
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: needed, needful, required
Antonyms: none provided
anything indispensable
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
food and shelter are necessities of life the essentials of the good life allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: necessity, essential, requirement, necessary
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: thing
Narrower terms: desideratum, must, need, want
From Latin requīsītus, perfect passive participle of requīrō (“to require, seek, ask for”), from which English require.
Across languages
Translations 38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic :
أَسَاسِيّ
(ʔasāsiyy)
— essential; required
Arabic :
ضُرُورِيّ
(ḍurūriyy)
— essential; required
Armenian :
անհրաժեշտ
(anhražešt)
— essential; required
Bulgarian :
нужен
(nužen)
— essential; required
Bulgarian :
необходим
(neobhodim)
— essential; required
Catalan :
necessari
— essential; required
Czech :
nutný
— essential; required
Czech :
nezbytný
— essential; required
Dutch :
vereist
— essential; required
Dutch :
noodzakelijk
— essential; required
Dutch :
onmisbaar
— essential; required
French :
nécessaire
— essential; required
German :
erforderlich
— essential; required
German :
notwendig
— essential; required
Irish :
riachtanach
— essential; required
Italian :
requisito
— essential; required
Norwegian Bokmål :
påkrevd
— essential; required
Portuguese :
necessário
— essential; required
Russian :
необходи́мый
(neobxodímyj)
— essential; required
Russian :
ну́жный
(núžnyj)
— essential; required
Russian :
тре́буемый
(trébujemyj)
— essential; required
Spanish :
necesario
— essential; required
Swedish :
nödvändig
— essential; required
Swedish :
erforderlig
— essential; required
Turkish :
gerekli
— essential; required
Turkish :
lüzumlu
— essential; required
Ukrainian :
необхідний
(neobxidnyj)
— essential; required
Ukrainian :
потрібний
(potribnyj)
— essential; required
Arabic :
لِزَام
(lizām)
— indispensable item
Arabic :
مُتَطَلَّب
(mutaṭallab)
— indispensable item
Bulgarian :
потребност
(potrebnost)
— indispensable item
Czech :
nutnost
— indispensable item
Czech :
nezbytnost
— indispensable item
German :
Erfordernis
— indispensable item
German :
Voraussetzung
— indispensable item
Spanish :
requisito
— indispensable item
Spanish :
arrequives
— indispensable item
Ottoman Turkish :
شرط
(şart)
— indispensable item
