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# necessarily

adverb (necessarily)

«necessarily» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Used mostly in «not necessarily»: not always, not in every case. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#m1)
2. In a way that cannot be different; because it must be so. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#m2)

### In the lessons

In maths, science and reasoning lessons it is a key thinking word: «A bigger box is not necessarily heavier» — one example does not prove a rule. In media literacy: «Popular is not necessarily true». It warns against jumping to conclusions.

### Examples

- Big dogs are not necessarily scary. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x1)
- An expensive toy is not necessarily better. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x2)
- A longer word is not necessarily harder to spell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x3)
- «Will it rain?» «Not necessarily.» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x4)
- Taller people do not necessarily run faster. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x5)
- Something on the internet is not necessarily true. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x6)
- A shape with four sides is not necessarily a square. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x7)
- “Will you please tell me if, on this island, there are places where one may eat without necessarily being eaten?” [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x8)

### Note

Spelling trap: one «c», double «s»: ne-ce-ss-ar-i-ly («one collar, two sleeves»). «Not necessarily» is softer than «no»: it means «sometimes yes, sometimes no». In maths, one counterexample shows a statement is not necessarily true.

## In Jewish tradition

In maths, science and reasoning lessons it is a key thinking word: «A bigger box is not necessarily heavier» — one example does not prove a rule. In media literacy: «Popular is not necessarily true». It warns against jumping to conclusions.

### Examples

- 23) The ancient philosophers maintained that if God is the first cause, and He is necessarily, He, the immediate effect of Him, as an absolute unity, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necessarily/#x1)
- He failed, however, to see that by way of contrast riTnr must necessarily mean consonants. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necessarily/#x2)

### Note

Spelling trap: one «c», double «s»: ne-ce-ss-ar-i-ly («one collar, two sleeves»). «Not necessarily» is softer than «no»: it means «sometimes yes, sometimes no». In maths, one counterexample shows a statement is not necessarily true.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «necessarily» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «necessarily» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/necessarily/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«necessarily» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/necessarily.html) on Mova free.