Meanings
comparative more necessarily · superlative most necessarily
- Inevitably; of necessity.
It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.
2 more examples
But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.
2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852Oregon’s uptick in marijuana sales along the Idaho border doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s all Idahoans who are lighting up, Lehner said.
2020 January 20, Harmeet Kaur, “Marijuana sales on the Oregon-Idaho border are 420% higher than average, an analysis finds. Yes, you read that right”, in CNNSynonyms: needs
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbInevitably; of necessity.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin such a manner as could not be otherwise
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic حَتْماً, بِالضَّرُورَة
- حَتْماً (ḥatman)of necessity
- بِالضَّرُورَة (bi-ḍ-ḍarūra)of necessity
Bulgarian непременно, по необходимост
- непременно (nepremenno)of necessity
- по необходимост (po neobhodimost)of necessity
Catalan necessàriament
- necessàriamentof necessity
Chinese Mandarin 必然地, 必定地
- 必然地 (bìrán de)of necessity
- 必定地 (bìdìng de)of necessity
Dutch nodig, noodzakelijk
- nodigof necessity
- noodzakelijkof necessity
- noodzakelijkerwijsof necessity
Esperanto nepre
- nepreof necessity
Estonian paratamatult
- paratamatultof necessity
Finnish välttämättä, välttis
- välttämättäof necessity
- välttisof necessity
French absolument, nécessairement
- absolumentof necessity
- nécessairementof necessity
German notwendigerweise, nötig
- notwendigerweiseof necessity
- nötigof necessity
- unbedingtof necessity
- zwangsläufigof necessity
Greek αναγκαστικά
- αναγκαστικά (anagkastiká)of necessity
Hebrew בהכרח
- בהכרח (b'hekhréakh)of necessity
Hindi अवश्य, अनिवार्यतः
- अवश्य (avaśya)of necessity
- अनिवार्यतः (anivāryataḥ)of necessity
- ज़रूरत से (zarūrat se)of necessity
- लाज़िमी तौर पर (lāzimī taur par)of necessity
- ज़रूर (zarūr)of necessity
- ज़रूर से (zarūr se)of necessity
Hungarian szükségszerűen
- szükségszerűenof necessity
Indonesian seharusnya, semestinya
- seharusnyaof necessity
- semestinyaof necessity
Irish is gá go…
- is gá go…of necessity
Italian necessariamente, a tutti i costi
- necessariamenteof necessity
- a tutti i costiof necessity
- di riffa o di raffaof necessity
- volente o nolenteof necessity
- per forzaof necessity
Norwegian nødvendigvis
- nødvendigvisof necessity
Persian لزوماً
- لزوماً (lozuman)of necessity
Polish koniecznie
- koniecznieof necessity
Portuguese necessariamente
- necessariamenteof necessity
Russian обяза́тельно
- обяза́тельно (objazátelʹno)of necessity
Slovak nevyhnutne, nutne
- nevyhnutneof necessity
- nutneof necessity
Spanish necesariamente
- necesariamenteof necessity
Thai ต้อง
- ต้อง (dtɔ̂ng)of necessity
Ukrainian обов'язко́во, неодмі́нно
- обов'язко́во (obovʺjazkóvo)of necessity
- неодмі́нно (neodmínno)of necessity
Welsh o reidrwydd, o raid
- o reidrwyddof necessity
- o raidof necessity
- o angenrheidrwyddof necessity
Yiddish דווקא
- דווקא (dafke)of necessity
Cite this entry
necessarily. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necessarily
“necessarily.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necessarily. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “necessarily,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necessarily.
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