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necessarily

adverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ɹɪ.li//
  • United Kingdom//ˈnɛs.ə.sɛɹ.li//
  • United States//ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li//
  • Australia//ˌnes.əˈseɹ.ə.li//

Inevitably; of necessity.

adverb

  1. 1

    Inevitably; of necessity.

    It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.

    But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.

    Oregon’s uptick in marijuana sales along the Idaho border doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s all Idahoans who are lighting up, Lehner said.

Etymology

Etymology tree English necessary Middle English -ly English -ly English necessarily From necessary + -ly.

Forms

comparative
more necessarily
superlative
most necessarily
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).