NECESSITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does necessitate mean? 

• NECESSITATE (verb)
  The verb NECESSITATE has 2 senses:

1. require as useful, just, or proper

2. cause to be a concomitant

  Familiarity information: NECESSITATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NECESSITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they necessitate    ... he / she / it necessitates   
Past simple: necessitated   
Past participle: necessitated   
-ing form: necessitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Require as useful, just, or proper

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; postulate; require; take

Context example:

This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent

Verb group:

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "necessitate"):

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

govern (require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood)

draw (require a specified depth for floating)

cost (require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice)

cry for; cry out for (need badly or desperately)

compel (necessitate or exact)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
It ----s that CLAUSE

Antonym:

obviate (do away with)

Derivation:

necessity (anything indispensable)

necessity (the condition of being essential or indispensable)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be a concomitant

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "necessitate" is one way to...):

lead (tend to or result in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "necessitate"):

entail; imply; mean (have as a logical consequence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An intended medical or surgical procedure necessitates the relocation of a cardiac lead.

(Medical or Surgical Procedure Requiring Relocation of Lead, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Preterm birth from 20 weeks to 36 weeks, 6 days of gestation that is necessitated by the medical condition of the mother or fetus.

(Indicated Preterm Birth, NCI Thesaurus)

This increase in dose may be necessitated by changes in the metabolism of the drug, or a cellular, physiological or behavioral adaptation to the effects of the drug.

(Drug tolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

Composed as the story was, in advance, chapter by chapter, he nevertheless saw and developed an opening that increased the power of it, though it necessitated twenty thousand additional words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This necessitated my climbing the shears, which I did twice, before I finished guying it fore and aft and to either side.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)