needs

Adverb

Synonyms: inevitably necessarily of necessity

WordNet 3.0

Adverb (1)

in such a manner as could not be otherwise“it is necessarily so”“we must needs by objective”Synonyms: inevitably necessarily of necessity

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Needs \Needs\, adv. [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. -wards.] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need. [1913 Webster]

A man must needs love mauger his head. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

And he must needs go through Samaria. --John iv. 4. [1913 Webster]

He would needs know the cause of his repulse. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]