not necessarily

phrase

: possibly but not certainly

—used to say that something is not definitely true

Seats in the front row are not necessarily the best.

"We're going to lose this game." "Not necessarily."

Examples of not necessarily in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Still, high debt alone does not necessarily trigger a crisis. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026

This creates what the team calls goal-action ambiguity, where observing the action alone does not necessarily reveal either the true goal or the preferred way of achieving it. — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026

And your job as a writer is to put some order onto those pieces, but not necessarily to draw some giant conclusion about them. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

PewDiePie argues that users do not necessarily need an enormous model for everyday agentic tasks. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for not necessarily

• extraordinarily
• hereditarily
• pecuniarily
• preliminarily
• unnecessarily
• airily
• caroli
• merrily
• verily
• warily
• wearily
• arbitrarily