Meaning of OBLIGATORY
| Pronunciation: | | u'bligu`towree
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- [adj] morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"
- [adj] required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies"
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| | Synonyms: | | bounden, compulsory, de rigueur, imposed, incumbent on(p), indispensable, mandatory, prerequisite, required |
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| | Antonyms: | | optional | | |
| | See Also: | | necessary | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ob"li*ga*to*ry\, a. [L. obligatorius: cf.F.
obligatoire.]
Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation;
requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often
followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a
soldier.
As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience
is due. --Jer. Taylor.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolute, binding, choiceless, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, demanded, dictated, entailed, essential, exigent, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, incumbent, indispensable, inevitable, involuntary, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, necessitous, peremptory, prescript, prescriptive, required, requisite, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice |
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