necessarily

English

Etymology

necessary +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌnɛsəˈsɛɹəli/

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Adverb

necessarily (comparative more necessarily, superlative most necessarily)

1. Inevitably; of necessity.
   • 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)
• Catalan: necessàriament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 必然地

• Dutch: nodig (nl), noodzakelijk (nl), noodzakelijkerwijs (nl)
• Esperanto: nepre
• Estonian: paratamatult
• Finnish: välttämättä (fi), (colloquial) välttis
• French: absolument (fr), nécessairement (fr)
• Galician: necesariamente
• Georgian: აუცილებლად (aucileblad)
• German: notwendigerweise (de), (very rare) nötig (de), zwangsläufig (de)
• Greek: αναγκαστικά (el) (anagkastiká)

• Haitian Creole: nesesèman
• Hebrew: בהכרח‎ (b'hekhréakh)
• Hungarian: szükségszerűen
• Italian: necessariamente (it), a tutti i costi, di riffa o di raffa, volente o nolente
• Norman: nécessaithement
• Norwegian: nødvendigvis
• Persian: لزوماً‎ (fa) (lozuman)
• Polish: koniecznie (pl)
• Portuguese: necessariamente (pt)
• Russian: обяза́тельно (ru) (objazátelʹno)
• Spanish: necesariamente
• Telugu: అవశ్యముగా (te) (avaśyamugā)
• Thai: ต้อง (th) (dtɔ̂ng)
• Yiddish: דווקא‎ (dafke)

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Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} ضرورى‎