necessitate

Language: en

🇺🇸 /nəˈsɛsəˌteɪt/

📖 Definitions

  1. verb
    To make something necessary or required; to compel or force as a necessary consequence.; To render something inevitable or unavoidable.

🔗 Details

Word forms

3rd sing.: necessitates Past: necessitated Past part.: necessitated Pres part.: necessitating

Collocations

necessitate a changenecessitate the use ofnecessitate actionnecessitate interventionnecessitate a review

Derivatives

necessitynecessarynecessarilynecessitationunnecessaryunnecessarily

Synonyms

requiredemandentailcall forcompelwarrant

Antonyms

obviateeliminatepreclude

Commonly confused

necessity
EN: 'Necessity' is the noun form meaning something that is needed; 'necessitate' is the verb meaning to make something necessary.
necessitate vs. necessitate
EN: No confusion.
necessitate
EN: Often confused in usage with 'need'; 'necessitate' is more formal and typically takes an abstract object (e.g., 'necessitate a change'), while 'need' is more general.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember 'necessitate' has double 's' and double 'c' (ne-ces-si-tate). A common error is dropping one 's' to write *'necesitate'.

💬 Examples

  1. The increase in population necessitated the construction of new schools.

  2. The emergency necessitated an immediate evacuation of the building.