necessitar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- necessitate verb To make something needed, so that it has to happen.
- need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
- require verb To need something as essential.
Senses
necessitar is used for these senses in English:
- necessitate (transitive) To make necessary; to behove; to require (something) to be brought about. [from early 17th c.]
- need (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
- need (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
- require Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15th c.]
necessitate — full definition
- verb To make something needed, so that it has to happen.
- verb To push someone into taking a particular course of action.
need — full definition
- noun A requirement for something essential or important.
- noun Poverty or lack of basic means of living.
- verb To require something as essential.
- verb To be obliged to do something.
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