necessaries

Noun

Meaning

of Necessary

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

essentials must need necessary demand needs want essential requirement necessity indispensable requisite precondition fundamentals desideratum
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Antonyms

extras luxuries voluntaries supernumeraries options alternates
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Examples

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. Mark Twain

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. John Lothrop Motley

Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep. Robert Owen

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. Benjamin Harrison

I do not share the socialist belief that centralization of the necessaries of life will conduce to the common welfare, when the centralized industries are planned and owned by the State. The socialistic concept of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence. Mahatma Gandhi

Buy what you have no need of and ere long you shall sell your necessaries. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

necessar necessarian necessarianism necessarily necessariness necessarium