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Synonyms for necessarily
ˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈsɛr-nec·es·sar·i·ly

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  1. necessarily, needfullyadverb

    in an essential manner

    "such expenses are necessarily incurred"

    Synonyms:
    needfully, inevitably, of necessity, needs

    Antonyms:
    unnecessarily

  2. inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needsadverb

    in such a manner as could not be otherwise

    "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective"

    Synonyms:
    of necessity, needfully, ineluctably, inescapably, inevitably, needs, unavoidably

    Antonyms:
    unnecessarily

  3. necessarilyadverb

    as a highly likely consequence

    "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"

    Synonyms:
    needfully, inevitably, of necessity, needs

    Antonyms:
    unnecessarily

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "necessarily":

    inevitably, always, compulsorily, absolutely, automatically

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#610always
#632needs
#2285automatically
#3582absolutely
#4386necessarily
#15164inevitably
#76367unavoidably
#118050compulsorily
#147728inescapably
#297504ineluctably

How to use necessarily in a sentence?

  1. Katharine Whitehorn:

    A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

  2. Julie Weber:

    When I hear or start seeing questions on social media, I hear of people talking about alternative medications or herbal products or supplements, I do get concerned, and I am concerned with this, and we do want to get that message out there that this is not necessarily a safe alternative or one that's even going to be effective.

  3. Les Funtleyder:

    Investors don't like uncertainty and this speech has created a fair amount of uncertainty, we don't really know what is necessarily priced in, what level of detriment to all these industries is priced in.

  4. Jitesh Ubrani:

    I think Apple's main use for switching over would be to offer a better product, not necessarily a cheaper product, you may see better value in some cases but I don't think we'll see cheap iMacs or cheap MacBooks going forward.

  5. Bryan Edwards:

    You can give someone something luxury and it doesn't necessarily have to break your own bank.


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