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- [ri-kwahyuh r]
- /rɪˈkwaɪər/
- /rɪˈkwaɪər/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ri-kwahyuh r]
- /rɪˈkwaɪər/
Definitions of required word
- verb with object required to have need of; need: He requires medical care. 1
- verb with object required to call on authoritatively; order or enjoin to do something: to require an agent to account for money spent. 1
- verb with object required to ask for authoritatively or imperatively; demand. 1
- verb with object required to impose need or occasion for; make necessary or indispensable: The work required infinite patience. 1
- verb with object required to call for or exact as obligatory; ordain: The law requires annual income-tax returns. 1
- verb with object required to place under an obligation or necessity: The situation requires me to take immediate action. 1
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Origin of required
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English requiren < Latin requīrere, equivalent to re- re- + -quīrere, combining form of quaerere to seek, search for (cf. quest)
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Parts of speech for Required
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
required popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
required usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for required
adj required
- all-important — crucial; vital
- apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- binding — A binding promise, agreement, or decision must be obeyed or carried out.
verb required
- bade — Bade is a past tense of bid2.
- concussed — If someone is concussed, they lose consciousness or feel sick or confused because they have been hit hard on the head.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- dragooned — Simple past tense and past participle of dragoon.
- dunned — to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
adjective required
- compulsatory — compulsory
- demanded — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- desirable — Something that is desirable is worth having or doing because it is useful, necessary, or popular.
- enforced — Caused by necessity or force ; compulsory.
- essential — Absolutely necessary; extremely important.
noun required
- defalcation — the amount embezzled
- deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
- insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
Antonyms for required
adj required
- causeless — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- discretional — discretionary.
adjective required
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- excused — Simple past tense and past participle of excuse.
- exempt — Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others.
- exempted — Simple past tense and past participle of exempt.
- noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
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