compulsory
Meaning of compulsory
- required by law or a rule; obligatory.
compulsory military service
it was compulsory to attend mass
early 16th century (as a noun denoting a legal mandate which had to be obeyed): from medieval Latin compulsorius, from compuls- ‘driven, forced’, from the verb compellere (see compel).
Information about compulsory
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of compulsory is: compulsories.
- Languages in which compulsory is used:
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Hyphenation of compulsory
com-pul-sory
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- compulsory is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
compulsory synonyms
Meaning mandatory:
Meaning required by a legal, moral, or other rule; compulsory:
Meaning made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations:
Meaning needed to be done, achieved, or present; essential:
Meaning absolutely necessary; extremely important:
Meaning required, permitted, or enacted by statute:
Meaning (of a medical practitioner) advise and authorize the use of (a medicine or treatment) for someone, especially in writing:
Meaning of vital importance; crucial:
Meaning caused by necessity or force; compulsory:
Meaning ask authoritatively or brusquely:
Meaning (of an agreement or promise) involving an obligation that cannot be broken:
Meaning obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power:
Meaning not able to be avoided, prevented, or ignored; inevitable:
Meaning unable to be avoided or denied:
Meaning necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility:
Meaning (of a law, rule, or obligation) able to be imposed so that it must be complied with:
Meaning agreed in a contract:
Meaning demand or specify (a requirement), typically as part of an agreement:
Meaning put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position:
compulsory antonyms
Meaning available to be chosen but not obligatory:
Meaning done, given, or acting of one's own free will:
Translation of compulsory
- German: notwendig, unverzichtbar, essenziell, unentbehrlich
- Italian: indispensabile, essenziale, inevitabile, necessario, imprescindibile
- Spanish: necesario, vital, imprescindible, obligatorio, esencial, indispensable, necesaria, obligatoria
- French: nécessaire, essentiel, indispensable, inévitable
- Portuguese: essencial, imprescindível
Words that rhyme with compulsory
sory, dissuasory, persuasory, suasory, vavasory, advisory, decisory, derisory, divisory, exorcisory, incisory, irrisory, nonsupervisory, preadvisory, premisory, provisory, revisory, subrisory, supervisory, suporvisory, underisory, unsupervisory, visory, expulsory, impulsory, noncompulsory, propulsory, repulsory, uncompulsory, chemosensory, chirotonsory, defensory, descensory, extensory, extrasensory, incensory, intersensory, multisensory, neurosensory, nonsensory, ostensory, parasensory, photosensory, polysensory, prehensory, psychosensory, reprehensory, responsory, scansory, sensory