necessitate

Other forms of necessitate

past tense

necessitated·

present participle

necessitating·

third person

necessitates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about necessitate

What does necessitate mean?

necessitate means "require as useful, just, or proper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in necessitate?

necessitate has 4 syllables: ne-ces-si-tate. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /nəˈsɛsəˌteɪt/.

What is another word for necessitate?

Close synonyms include ask, postulate, need, require, take. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of necessitate?

The recorded antonyms are obviate.

Is necessitate a common word?

necessitate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with necessitate?

29 words rhyme with necessitate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.