Necessarily
Necessarily adverb - Because of necessity.
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Synonyms for Necessarily
Really and necessarily are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Really" instead an adverb "Necessarily".
Really
Really adverb - In actual fact.
Necessarily and really are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Necessarily" instead an adverb "Really".
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Related pairs
- actually and necessarily
- actually and really
- truly and necessarily
- truly and really
- quite and necessarily
- quite and really
- sure and necessarily
- sure and really
- positively and necessarily
- positively and really
- definitely and necessarily
- definitely and really
- certainly and necessarily
- certainly and really
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Or rather, asking him the mathematical question can be used as an effective gauge of his health; it won't necessarily calm him down, but, if you consider that he's a bursar as well as being The Bursar, making sure he can actually do his job is pretty much the only thing you can really ask of him.
Source: Mad Mathematician - While Captain Jarvis in The Return sees himself as evil for what he does, really he is just Necessarily Evil, this doesn't really reassure him.
Source: Necessarily Evil -
Not So Harmless: Nonlethal doesn't necessarily guarantee that the nonlethal object won't really, really hurt you.
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