necessarily

English

Etymology

necessary +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛs.ə.sə.ɹɪ.li/, /ˈnɛs.ə.sɛɹ.li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/

• Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌnes.əˈseɹ.ə.li/, /ˌnes.əˈseɹ.li/

• Audio (UK):

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Adverb

necessarily (comparative more necessarily, superlative most necessarily)

1. Inevitably; of necessity. Usually used in the negative.

   Synonym: needs

   It is not necessarily true that children get their morals from their parents.

   • 2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:

     But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.

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)
• Hindi: अवश्य (hi) (avaśya), अनिवार्यतः (anivāryataḥ), ज़रूरत से (zarūrat se), लाज़िमी तौर पर (lāzimī taur par), ज़रूर (hi) (zarūr), ज़रूर से (zarūr se)
• Hungarian: szükségszerűen (hu)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: obavezno (sh), obvezno (sh)
• Sicilian: pi forza, pi pattu
• 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