necessary英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory. Maine,UK,archaic,euphemistic,usually

— It soon became fashionable for even the poorest families to have a necessary not far from their cabin. […] The more affluent settlers painted their necessarys in bright colors and carved their names on the doors.
Necessity. obsolete

— […] loss of that whole dominion of New England, and consequently of their Majesties' other American Plantations, endangered not only by the want of provisions, but by the many ships, vessels, seamen and other necessarys in New England, ...

形容词 adj.

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.
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.
Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will. obsolete

— But that a necessary being should give birth to a being with any amount, however limited, of moral freedom, is infinitely less conceivable than that parents of the insect or fish type should give birth to a perfect mammal.

词形变化

necessarier comparative more necessary comparative necessariest superlative most necessary superlative necessaries plural necessarys plural

词汇关系

衍生词

equinecessary innecessary necessarian necessarily necessary condition necessary evil necessary room necessary woman nonnecessary seminecessary socially necessary labour time

词源

词源 1

From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede.
Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.

词源 2

From Middle English necessarye, from Old French necessaire, from Latin necessārius (“unavoidable, inevitable, required”), variant of necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”), probably from ne or non cessum, from the perfect passive participle of cēdō (“yield; avoid, withdraw”); see cede.
Older use as a noun in reference to an outhouse or lavatory under the influence of English and Latin necessārium, a medieval term for the place for monks’ “unavoidable” business, usually located behind or attached to monastic dormitories.