1
[ adverb ] in an essential manner

Synonyms

needfully

Examples

"such expenses are necessarily incurred"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Perhaps Special Projects necessarily thinks along documentary lines .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Each scene is shot straight through , as had been the universal custom , from a camera fixed in a single position , but in the outdoor scenes , especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws , Porter 's camera position breaks , necessarily , with the camera position standard until then , which had been , roughly , that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

I take this to mean that the intelligent - and therefore necessarily cynical ?

(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)

In_fact , although we have dispelled the fear , we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers .

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

But to say that at a moment in history something is new is not necessarily to say that it is modern ; and for this statement the best evidence comes within the five years following the publication of Utopia , when Martin_Luther elaborates a new perception of the nature of the Divine 's encounter with man .

Related terms

unnecessarily necessary needed needed

2
[ adverb ] in such a manner as could not be otherwise

Synonyms

inevitably of_necessity needs

Examples

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

Used in print

(Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)

The great resemblance between electrical and magnetic_attractions and repulsions and the similarity of their laws necessarily would bring_about this comparison .

(Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)

Then if you change jobs you won n't necessarily have_to sell the farm .

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

Ideas , in and of themselves , are not necessarily the greatest good .

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

It would be profitable , I believe , to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner 's works , the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly , but rather that they dealt a_hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time , to Faulkner 's time .

Related terms

inevitable necessary inevitable necessary

3
[ adverb ] as a highly likely consequence

Examples

"we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

Corporations should pay added taxes , to be used for educational purposes ( not necessarily of the formal type ) .

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