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

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1. obligatoryadjective

   Antonyms:
   optional

2. obligatoryadjective

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3. obligatoryadjective

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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

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1. obligationadjective

   Submitted by Jkullack on April 16, 2024  

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1. obligatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   binding, coercive

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1. obligatoryadjective

   Synonyms:
   binding, incumbent, imperative, coercive

   Antonyms:
   optional, discretional

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1. List of paraphrases for "obligatory":

   compulsory, mandatory, binding, non-compensatory

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How to use obligatory in a sentence?

1. Cicero:

   There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

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. Amanda Parrish:

   It was that I lost my drive to initiate [sex] and be an active participant [in sex] and I found myself more of an obligatory participant. from the neck down my body responds just fine, but from the head up, well, for years people have been telling women it's all in our head and I guess it turns out for some women it really is.

4. Lewis Lapham:

   Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

5. Sabri Teweila:

   Before the dollar crisis, we used to pay for the cost of raw materials by writing letters of credit ... We would then import the materials and pay the rest of the money after the shipment is received, now, it's obligatory to pay the entire cost before shipment. The economic crisis negatively affected agreements with foreign countries.