What are some opposite words for obligatory?

Antonyms for obligatory
əˈblɪg əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈɒb lɪ gə-oblig·a·to·ry

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. obligatoryadjective

    Antonyms:
    optional

  2. obligatoryadjective

    Antonyms:
    optional

  3. obligatoryadjective

    Antonyms:
    optional

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. obligatoryadjective

    morally or legally constraining or binding

    "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"

    Antonyms:
    ex gratia, nonobligatory, unneeded, optional, unnecessary, nonmandatory, elective, facultative

  2. obligatoryadjective

    required by obligation or compulsion or convention

    "he made all the obligatory apologies"

    Antonyms:
    facultative, optional, unneeded, ex gratia, elective, nonobligatory, nonmandatory, unnecessary

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. obligatoryadjective

    Antonyms:
    optional, discretional

    Synonyms:
    binding, incumbent, imperative, coercive

How to use obligatory in a sentence?

  1. Marcelo Crivella:

    Our appeal is that the clubs who think they shouldn't return are not punished, the opening phase is not obligatory, if a player that is obliged to return turns up tomorrow with COVID-19 and dies then people are going to say, we came back too soon.

  2. Angel Kunchev:

    We plan to lift the obligatory quarantine for Bulgarians returning from abroad and for travellers from the European Union countries and Serbia and North Macedonia, we will keep it for the eight EU countries that have the biggest registered cases in the past two weeks.

  3. Weichan Auka Mapu:

    In terms of resistance, we incorporate an armed element as an obligatory response to the systemic violence that the Chilean state has exercised against the Mapuche people.

  4. Ronald Levant:

    They have to know that it's not obligatory, that they can be who they are, and that there's not a set of predetermined personality traits they have to meet.

  5. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak:

    In my opinion, any decisions on coordination which would require an obligatory fulfilment, are unlikely to be taken, because we see quite big disagreements inside OPEC on the further development of the situation and on what should, or opposite, should not be done for the market to reach a balance.

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#9462unnecessary
#11281elective
#23825obligatory
#46112unneeded
#97551facultative

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