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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (3)

1. in an essential manner;
- Example: "such expenses are necessarily incurred"
[syn: necessarily, needfully]

2. in such a manner as could not be otherwise;
- Example: "it is necessarily so"
- Example: "we must needs by objective"
[syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs]

3. as a highly likely consequence;
- Example: "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Necessarily \Nec"es*sa*ri*ly\, adv. In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

necessarily adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant: unnecessarily] 2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs] 3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"