Antonyms for necessarily

Grammar : Adv

Spell : nes-uh-sair-uh-lee, -ser-

Phonetic Transcription : ˌnɛs əˈsɛər ə li, -ˈsɛr-

Definition of necessarily

Origin : mid-15c., "inevitably, unavoidably," from necessary (adj.) + -ly (2).

adv inevitably, certainly

Example sentences :

We have no longer States that are necessarily only planting States.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

It is not necessarily his own religious belief that he will select.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

It dawned on me, too, that God need not necessarily be to me what He is to others, nor to others what He is to me.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

I had to take care of him, and the work on the grocery-house was necessarily stopped.
Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson

Marriage might be the absorbing duty of some women, but was it necessarily hers?
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

I was speaking of what could be, not necessarily of what was.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

If, as always, there are exceptions to this rule, they are necessarily evanescent.
Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson

The character-drawing in the next scene is necessarily slight.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

But just as the former is not necessarily a crutch, so the latter was not necessarily a cross.
Extract from : « The Non-Christian Cross » by John Denham Parsons

Will they not necessarily be slothful, if you are silent and sleep?
Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump

Synonyms for necessarily

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