REQUISITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does requisite mean? 

• REQUISITE (noun)
  The noun REQUISITE has 1 sense:

1. anything indispensable

  Familiarity information: REQUISITE used as a noun is very rare.

• REQUISITE (adjective)
  The adjective REQUISITE has 1 sense:

1. necessary for relief or supply

  Familiarity information: REQUISITE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REQUISITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anything indispensable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

essential; necessary; necessity; requirement; requisite

Context example:

a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained

Hypernyms ("requisite" is a kind of...):

thing (a separate and self-contained entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "requisite"):

desideratum (something desired as a necessity)

must (a necessary or essential thing)

need; want (anything that is necessary but lacking)

Derivation:

requisite (necessary for relief or supply)

• REQUISITE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Necessary for relief or supply

Synonyms:

needed; needful; required; requisite

Context example:

provided them with all things needful

Similar:

necessary (absolutely essential)

Derivation:

requisite (anything indispensable)

requisiteness (the state of being absolutely required)

 Context examples 

She depended on the evil feelings of the Eltons for supplying all the discipline of pointed neglect that could be farther requisite.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But the rest, which one night entirely sleepless, and many hours of the most wearing anxiety seemed to make requisite, was kept off by irritation of spirits.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Failure to perform hemodialysis due to blockage of the artery-vein grafts which provide the requisite vascular access.

(Dialysis Access Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

Therefore the room where company meet who practise this art, is full of all things, ready at hand, requisite to furnish matter for this kind of artificial converse.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The use of a piece of hardware with the requisite Parameters and ParameterValues.

(Hardware Application, NCI Thesaurus)

Both men fulfilled that requisite of the powerful athlete that they should look larger without their clothes than with them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The proposition I originally submitted, was twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four; but I am apprehensive that such an arrangement might not allow sufficient time for the requisite amount of—Something—to turn up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The dysplasia may be accompanied by an increase in myeloblasts, but the number is less than 20%, which, according to the WHO guidelines, is the requisite threshold for the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia.

(Myelodysplastic syndrome, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

These chemical elements are requisites for molecular structure, and they determine both the reactivity and selectivity of nanoparticles.

(Nanoparticle Chemical Characterization, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Rochester that night was absent from home; nor was he yet returned: business had called him to a small estate of two or three farms he possessed thirty miles off—business it was requisite he should settle in person, previous to his meditated departure from England.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)