Adverb
- 1. necessarily, needfully
- usage: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred"
- 2. inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs
- usage: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective"
- 3. necessarily
- usage: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"
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