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# necessarily

«necessarily» in Mova's school dictionary: **Used mostly in «not necessarily»: not always, not in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (necessarily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Used mostly in «not necessarily»: not always, not in every case. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x1)
- An expensive toy is not necessarily better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x2)
- A longer word is not necessarily harder to spell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x3)
- «Will it rain?» «Not necessarily.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x4)
- Taller people do not necessarily run faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x5)
- Something on the internet is not necessarily true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/#x6)
- A shape with four sides is not necessarily a square. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «necessarily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/necessarily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.