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Necessarily vs Obligatory - What's the difference?

necessarily | obligatory |

As an adverb necessarily

is inevitably; of necessity.

As an adjective obligatory is

imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.

necessarily

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Inevitably; of necessity.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The multiplexed metropolis , passage=But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones.}}

    obligatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
  • an obligatory promise
  • * Richard Baxter
  • if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory .
  • Requiring a matter or obligation.
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