Usually means: Required by the circumstances; inevitably.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessarily: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. necessarily: Merriam-Webster
  3. necessarily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. necessarily: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. necessarily: Collins English Dictionary
  6. necessarily: Vocabulary.com
  7. Necessarily, necessarily: Wordnik
  8. necessarily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. necessarily: Wiktionary
  10. necessarily: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. necessarily: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. necessarily: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Necessarily, necessarily: Dictionary.com
  14. necessarily: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Necessarily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. necessarily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. necessarily: Rhymezone
  18. necessarily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. necessarily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. necessarily: FreeDictionary.org
  21. necessarily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. necessarily: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. necessarily: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. necessarily: Legal dictionary
  2. necessarily: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessarily: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necessarily: Medical dictionary

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▸ adverb:  Inevitably; of necessity.

Similar:
inevitably, needfully, needs, of necessity, hardly, actually, really, ordinarily, seem, generally, more...

Opposite:
optionally, voluntarily, unnecessarily, optionally, avoidably

Types:
required, needed, essential, indispensable, more...

Phrases:
not necessarily, It Ain't Necessarily So, Not Necessarily the News, necessarily true, necessarily include, more...



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Similar:
inevitably, needfully, needs, of necessity, hardly, actually, really, ordinarily, seem, generally, more...

Opposite:
optionally, voluntarily, unnecessarily, optionally, avoidably

Types:
required, needed, essential, indispensable, more...

Phrases:
not necessarily, It Ain't Necessarily So, Not Necessarily the News, necessarily true, necessarily include, including necessarily, does not necessarily, seems but not necessarily is, more...



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