Needs

adv.

1.

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; - often with must, and equivalent to of need. A man must needs love mauger his head. - Chaucer. And he must needs go through Samaria. - John iv. 4. He would needs know the cause of his repulse. - Sir J. Davies.

Adv.

1.

needs - in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" Synonyms: inevitably, of necessity, necessarily

inevitably, necessarily, of necessity