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necessarily
adverb
1 an increase in the money supply will not necessarily have much effect on spending:
automatically, as a direct consequence/result, as an automatic consequence/result, as a matter of course, by definition, certainly, surely, definitely, incontrovertibly, undoubtedly, axiomatically.
2 the timetable may, necessarily, be subject to amendment:
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.
antonyms possibly.