necessarily

American  

[nes-uh-sair-uh-lee, -ser-] / ˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈsɛr- /

adverb

1. by or of necessity; as a matter of compulsion or requirement.

   You don't necessarily have to attend.

2. as a necessary, logical, or inevitable result.

   That conclusion doesn't necessarily follow.

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necessarily British  

/ ˌnɛsɪˈsɛrɪlɪ, ˈnɛsɪsərɪlɪ /

adverb

1. as an inevitable or natural consequence

   girls do not necessarily like dolls

2. as a certainty

   he won't necessarily come

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Etymology

Origin of necessarily

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; necessary, -ly

Example Sentences

But he said the war pushed the ministry "to accept products that were not necessarily fully finished and tested, coming from startups".

From Barron's

Getting rid of the IEEPA-based tariffs may translate into easing consumer prices over time, but that isn’t necessarily where the real economic value is going to come from, Smetters says.

From Barron's

And keep in mind that an asset going up in value after you sell it doesn’t necessarily mean it was a bad decision to sell at the time.

From MarketWatch

"There is no real teaching of the history of Africa in the school curriculum, we don't necessarily have particularly extensive archives."

From Barron's

This “”will inevitably reactivate the trauma of some victims…some of whom are not necessarily known to us,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• automatically
• naturally
• no doubt
• undoubtedly
• unquestionably