necessitating

Making absolutely necessary

Necessitating is making something necessary or unavoidable.

The word implies that circumstances or conditions create a requirement: The flood damage necessitated extensive repairs.

It often appears in formal or technical contexts where one thing forces another: Budget cuts necessitating layoffs, injuries necessitating surgery.

requiring

demanding

Requiring great effort

obligating · forcing · dictating · warranting · calling for · prompting · triggering · precipitating · inducing · provoking

urgent

pressing

Requiring immediate attention

  • immediateHappening without delay
  • criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
  • direExtremely serious or urgent

imperative · time-sensitive · exigent · acute · emergency · crisis · compelling · crucial · demanding · insistent

essential

indispensable

Utterly required, irreplaceable

integral · requisite · imperative · prerequisite · core · intrinsic · inherent · basic · primary · underlying

precondition

prerequisite

Required prior condition

proviso · criterion · basis · foundation · groundwork · underpinning · premise · antecedent · precursor · threshold

compulsory

mandatory

Required by rule

prescribed · statutory · regulatory · decreed · nonnegotiable · unavoidable · ineluctable · peremptory · legislated · codified

Opposites
requirement vs. optionality

necessitatingsuggesting

Offering an idea indirectly

enabling vs. preventing

necessitatingprecluding

Making impossible beforehand

obviating · preventing · forestalling · ruling out · averting

Family

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