necessarily meaning and definition

NECESSARILY adverb

Definition of necessarily (adverb)

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