Necessary vs. Inevitable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Necessary and Inevitable
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Necessary
Needed or required
A contract complete with the necessary signatures.
Conditions necessary to life.
Inevitable
Certain to happen; unavoidable
War was inevitable
Necessary
Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable
The necessary results of overindulgence.
Inevitable
A situation that is unavoidable
By the morning he had accepted the inevitable
Necessary
Logically inevitable
A necessary conclusion.
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Inevitable
Impossible to avoid or prevent; certain to happen.
Necessary
Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention
Made the necessary apologies.
Inevitable
Invariably occurring or appearing; predictable
The inevitable changes of the seasons.
Necessary
Something indispensable.
Inevitable
To avoid or prevent.
We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.
Necessary
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.
Inevitable
Or always happening.
My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.
Necessary
Unavoidable, inevitable.
If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
Inevitable
Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
Necessary
(obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
Inevitable
Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain.
It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things.
Necessary
A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
Inevitable
Irresistible.
Necessary
(obsolete) Necessity.
Inevitable
An unavoidable event;
Don't argue with the inevitable
Necessary
Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.
Inevitable
Incapable of being avoided or prevented;
The inevitable result
Necessary
Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requisite; essential.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
Inevitable
Invariably occurring or appearing;
The inevitable changes of the seasons
Necessary
Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Necessary
A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
Necessary
A privy; a water-closet.
Necessary
Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Necessary
Anything indispensable;
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
Necessary
Absolutely essential
Necessary
Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances;
The necessary consequences of one's actions
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