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

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1. necessarily, needfully(adverb)

   in an essential manner

   "such expenses are necessarily incurred"

2. inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs(adverb)

   in such a manner as could not be otherwise

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

3. necessarily(adverb)

   as a highly likely consequence

   "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. necessarily(Adverb)

   inevitably; of necessity

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Necessarily(adverb)

   in a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'necessarily' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1967

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'necessarily' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1208

3. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'necessarily' in Adverbs Frequency: #158

How to pronounce necessarily?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of necessarily in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of necessarily in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of necessarily in a Sentence

1. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

   I don't necessarily believe what I see because it's not a poll of likely voters.

2. Mark Twain:

   What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.

3. Trish Newport:

   Bigger is not necessarily better.

4. Yann Lecun:

   The desire to dominate is not correlated with intelligence, in fact, we have many examples of this... in the world. It's not the smartest of us that necessarily wants to be the chief.

5. Jon Abramson:

   If we can’t get four doses of this vaccine into the children, we’re not going to be using it, what we are recommending is that before we have widespread use of this vaccine - and we wouldn’t necessarily use it in a very low incidence area, but in all medium and high areas - that we know that we can get that fourth dose in.

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