Word NECESSARILY: meanings, synonyms & antonyms

necessarily

🇺🇸 [ˌnɛsəˈsɛrəli]

Meanings

Used to indicate that something is a logical outcome or requirement under certain conditions, though not absolutely inevitable in all cases.

Examples

• Success doesn’t necessarily mean happiness.
• A larger budget doesn’t necessarily result in better quality.
• It’s not necessarily true that more money brings more contentment.

Synonyms

inevitably • unavoidably • automatically

Antonyms

optionally • possibly • potentially