necessarily

English

Etymology

necessary +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌnɛsəˈsɛɹəli/
Received Pronunciation: IPA^(key): /ˈnɛsəs(ə)rɪli/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌnɛsəˈsɛɹəli/
Audio (US) (file)

Adverb

necessarily (comparative more necessarily, superlative most necessarily)

Inevitably; of necessity.
Synonym: needs
- 2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:
  But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.
It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.

Related terms

necessary
unnecessarily

Translations

of necessity

Arabic: حَتْماً‎ (ḥatman)
Armenian: անհրաժեշտաբար (hy) (anhražeštabar)
Bulgarian: непременно (bg) (nepremenno), по необходимост (po neobhodimost)
Catalan: necessàriament (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 必然地 (bìrán de), 必定地 (bìdìng de)
Dutch: nodig (nl), noodzakelijk (nl), noodzakelijkerwijs (nl)
Esperanto: nepre (eo)
Estonian: paratamatult
Finnish: välttämättä (fi), (colloquial) välttis (fi)
French: absolument (fr), nécessairement (fr)
Galician: necesariamente
Georgian: აუცილებლად (aucileblad)
German: notwendigerweise (de), (very rare) nötig (de), unbedingt (de), zwangsläufig (de)
Greek: αναγκαστικά (el) (anagkastiká)
Haitian Creole: nesesèman
Hebrew: בהכרח‎ (b'hekhréakh)
Hungarian: szükségszerűen
Indonesian: seharusnya (id), semestinya (id)
Italian: necessariamente (it), a tutti i costi, di riffa o di raffa, volente o nolente, per forza
Norman: nécessaithement
Norwegian: nødvendigvis
Persian: لزوماً‎ (fa) (lozuman)
Polish: koniecznie (pl)
Portuguese: necessariamente (pt)
Russian: обяза́тельно (ru) (objazátelʹno)
Slovak: nevyhnutne, nutne
Spanish: necesariamente (es)
Telugu: అవశ్యముగా (te) (avaśyamugā)
Thai: ต้อง (th) (dtɔ̂ng)
Ukrainian: обов'язко́во (obovʺjazkóvo), неодмі́нно (neodmínno)
Yiddish: דווקא‎ (dafke)

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Arabic: ^{(please verify)} ضرورى‎