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