used to say that sth cannot be avoided:
The number of places available is necessarily limited.
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not necessarily used to say that sth is possibly true but not definitely or always true:
The more expensive articles are not necessarily better. * Biggest doesn't necessarily mean best. * (spoken) 'We're going to lose.' 'Not necessarily.'
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for necessarily is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is necessarily a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, necessarily is tagged as adverb.
Does necessarily appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — necessarily appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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