Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Necessity

Nouns
  • involuntariness
  • instinct, blind impulse
  • inborn proclivity, innate proclivity
  • native tendency, natural tendency
  • natural impulse, predetermination. necessity, necessitation
  • obligation
  • compulsion etc. Compulsion
  • subjection etc. Subjection
  • stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity
  • fate
  • what must be. destiny, destination
  • fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination
  • preordination, foreordination
  • lot fortune
  • fatalism
  • inevitableness etc. adj.
  • spell etc. Spell. star, stars
  • planet, planets
  • astral influence
  • sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate
  • God's will, will of Heaven
  • wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice. last shift, last resort
  • necessaries etc. (requirement) Requirement. necessarian, necessitarian
  • fatalist
  • automaton.
Verbs
  • lie under a necessity
  • befated, be doomed, be destined etc., in for, under the necessity of
  • have no choice, have no alternative
  • be one's fate etc. n.. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help. destine, doom, foredoom, devote
  • predestine, preordain
  • cast a spell etc. Sorcery
  • necessitate
  • compel etc. Compulsion.
Adjectives
  • necessary, needful etc. (requisite) Requirement. fated
  • destined etc. v.
  • elect
  • spellbound compulsory etc. (compel) Compulsion
  • uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable, irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable
  • avoidless, resistless. involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical
  • unconscious, unwitting, unthinking
  • unintentional etc. (undesigned) [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance
  • impulsive etc. Impulse.
Adverbs
  • necessarily etc. adv.
  • of necessity, of course
  • needs must
  • perforce etc. Compulsion
  • will he nil he, willy nilly, willing or unwilling
  • by stress of
  • if need be.
Phrases
  • it cannot be helped
  • there is no help for, there is no helping it
  • it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its way
  • the die is cast
  • it is written
  • " one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed
  • The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. The moving finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all thy piety nor wit shall draw it back to cancel half a [Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam].