- 2. Privy, jakes, water-closet, back-house.
Necessitate, v. a.
- 1. Compel, force, oblige, constrain, impel.
- 2. Make necessary, render unavoidable.
Necessitous, a.
- 1. Needy, indigent, poor, penniless, moneyless, destitute, distressed, pinched, reduced, in need, in want,
short of money, out of money, out of pocket, out of cash.
- 2. Narrow, destitute, pinching.
Necessity, n.
- 1. Unavoidableness, inevitableness.
- 2. Compulsion, fatality, fate, destiny, irresistible force, overruling power.
- 3. Indispensableness, indispensability, need.
- 4. Need, needfulness, urgency, exigency, pressing want.
- 5. Requirement, requisite, essential, necessary, indispensable thing, sine qua non.
- 6. Indigence, poverty, need, want.
Neck-and-neck. Even, level, equal.
Neck-cloth, n. Cravat, neckerchief, necktie.
Neckerchief, Neckhandkerchief, n. Cravat, neck-cloth.
Neck-or-nothing, a. Dangerous, desperate.
Necktie, n. Cravat, neck-cloth.
Necrology, n. Obituary, register of deaths.
Necromancer, n. Sorcerer, conjurer, enchanter, juggler, charmer, diviner, wizard, magician, exorcist, seer, soothsayer.
Necromancy, n. Sorcery, magic, divination, enchantment, conjuration, black art, magical art.