needfully

Because it's required

In a manner that is necessary or required.

The word is rare and somewhat awkward, appearing occasionally in formal or literary contexts where *necessarily* would serve better: The funds were needfully allocated to emergency services.

Most writers avoid it.

necessity

indispensably

In a necessary way

fundamentally · requisitely · mandatorily · compulsorily · obligatorily · bindingly · intrinsically · integrally · centrally · critically

urgency

pressingly

In urgent manner

swiftly · promptly · expediently · hastily · imperatively · demandingly · insistently · acutely · desperately · precipitately

inevitability

unavoidably

Without possibility of prevention

irrevocably · unalterably · inexorably · certainly · automatically · unconditionally · invariably · without fail · perforce

Opposites
necessity

needfullyunnecessarily

Without good reason

needlessly · optionally · superfluously · gratuitously · redundantly

Phrases
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