of necessity

1. 1.

   in such a manner as could not be otherwise

   “it is necessarily so”

   “we must needs by objective”

   Synonymsinevitablynecessarilyneeds

Questions about of necessity

What does of necessity mean?

of necessity means "in such a manner as could not be otherwise".

What is another word for of necessity?

Close synonyms include inevitably, necessarily, needs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is of necessity a common word?

of necessity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.