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Synonyms for obligatory
əˈblɪg əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈɒb lɪ gə-oblig·a·to·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
obligatoryadjective
morally or legally constraining or binding
"attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"
Antonyms:
ex gratia, nonobligatory, unneeded, optional, unnecessary, nonmandatory, elective, facultativeobligatoryadjective
required by obligation or compulsion or convention
"he made all the obligatory apologies"
Antonyms:
facultative, optional, unneeded, ex gratia, elective, nonobligatory, nonmandatory, unnecessary
Editors Contribution
obligationadjective
Submitted by Jkullack on April 16, 2024
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
obligatoryadjective
Synonyms:
binding, incumbent, imperative, coerciveAntonyms:
optional, discretional
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "obligatory":
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2435 | binding | |
#6240 | mandatory | |
#11526 | compulsory | |
#23825 | obligatory |
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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.
Between May 11 and May 25 we will extend the obligatory preventative isolation but recover space for productive life.
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.
In our case, this is not just possible but obligatory, right now, we are assessing how long it will take, how much work there is, and how we can carry it out.
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.
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