[
  {
    "word": "necessity",
    "phonetic": "/n\u026a\u02c8s\u025bs\u0259ti/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/n\u026a\u02c8s\u025bs\u0259ti/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/necessity-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1648272",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "doctrine of necessity"
          },
          {
            "definition": "(in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "certainty",
          "inevitability"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "luxury",
          "contingency",
          "impossibility"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/necessity"
    ]
  }
]