necessities

Meaning

of Necessity

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

need needs requirement necessity staple livelihood requisite neediness subsistence desideratum necessaries

Antonyms

odds and ends

Phrases with the word

provide the necessities of life

Examples

Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams

...we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. Oscar Wilde

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. Alexander Hamilton

While yearning for excess we lose the necessities. Persian Proverb

Necessities never end. Kikuyu Proverb

He who wants to have arms and necessities can take them himself. Corsican Proverb