necessarily
/ˈnɛsəs(ə)rɪli
/ /ˌnɛsəˈsɛrɪli /adverb
As a necessary result; inevitably: the prognosis can necessarily be only an educated guess...
- Cognitive decline with age is not inevitable, nor does it necessarily lead to dementia.
- If you believe in one you don't necessarily have to believe in the other and each has it's arguments.
- This is not to say that this research is necessarily unstable and invalid, but that we simply do not know.
Synonyms
automatically, as a direct consequence/result, as an automatic consequence/result, as a matter of course, by definition, certainly, surely, definitely, incontrovertibly, undoubtedly, axiomatically
unavoidably, of necessity, by force of circumstance, by force majeure, inevitably, inescapably, ineluctably;
willy-nilly;
Latin nolens volens
informal like it or not
formal perforce
Phrases
not necessarily