Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Necessary or required for a particular purpose: Something that is "requisite" is essential or indispensable for achieving a specific goal or completing a task.

2. Noun:

   • Something that is necessary or indispensable: A "requisite" is an item, condition, or quality that is absolutely required.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:

  • A university degree is often a requisite qualification for this profession.
  • The requisite skills for the job include communication and problem-solving.

• Noun:

  • Food and water are the basic requisites for survival.
  • She gathered all the requisites for the camping trip.

Advanced Usage

• "To be requisite for/to something": To be necessary for something.
  • Patience is requisite for mastering a new language.
• Used in formal or official contexts to denote mandatory conditions.
  • Meeting the safety standards is a requisite for obtaining a license.

Variants and Related Words

• Requisition (n): An official order laying claim to the use of property or materials; a formal request or demand.
  • The department submitted a requisition for new computers.
• Prerequisite (n/adj): Something that is required as a prior condition.
  • Completion of the introductory course is a prerequisite for the advanced class.

Synonyms

• Adjective: Necessary, essential, required, mandatory, indispensable, needed.
• Noun: Requirement, necessity, essential, precondition, must.

Antonyms

• Adjective: Unnecessary, nonessential, optional, superfluous.
• Noun: Luxury, extra, nonessential.

Adjective

1. necessary for relief or supply
   • provided them with all things needful

Noun

1. anything indispensable
   • food and shelter are necessities of life
   • the essentials of the good life
   • allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
   • a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained