adverb
- In such a manner as could not be otherwise.
- usage: "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective"
- synonyms: necessarily, of necessity, needs
- By necessity.
- usage: "the situation slid inescapably toward disaster "
- synonyms: inescapably, ineluctably, unavoidably
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