Necessarily

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Necessarily \Nec"es*sa*ri*ly\, adv.
     In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably;
     indispensably.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  necessarily
       adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily
              incurred" [syn: {needfully}] [ant: {unnecessarily}]
       2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is
          necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: {inevitably},
           {of necessity}, {needs}]
       3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound
          for federalism in Europe"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "necessarily":
     accordingly, and so, as a consequence, as a result, certainly,
     come what may, compulsorily, consequently, fatefully, finally,
     from necessity, inconsequence, indefeasibly, ineluctably,
     inescapably, inevasibly, inevitably, inexorably, inflexibly,
     irrevocably, it follows that, naturally, naturellement, need,
     needfully, needs, nolens volens, of course, of necessity, perforce,
     relentlessly, requisitely, surely, therefore, unavoidably,
     uncontrollably, unpreventably, unyieldingly, willy-nilly,
     without choice