more requisite

ADJECTIVE

necessary

Synonyms

WEAK

appropriate called for compulsatory compulsory condign demanded deserved due enforced essential imperative imperious indispensable just mandatory needed needful obligatory prerequisite prescribed recommended right rightful set suitable unavoidable vital

Antonyms

WEAK

nonessential optional unnecessary

Example Sentences

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After all, it would seem that fancy sewing was considered far more requisite than science and literature in the training of American girls of the eighteenth century.

From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Holliday, Carl

Nothing is more disgusting than an oily gun, and yet nothing is more requisite than to keep it so when out of use.

From The Dog by Dinks

Secondly, sobriety is more requisite in certain persons, as being more necessary for the operations proper to them.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

At Parramatta, whither the greatest part of the convicts lately arrived had been sent, petty offences were frequently committed, and the constant presence of a magistrate became daily more requisite.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. by Collins, David

It appears to us that at no time has such an investigation been more requisite.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard