Compulsory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Compulsory \Com*pul"so*ry\, a. [LL. compulsorius.]
     1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
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     2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to
        compulsion.


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              This contribution threatening to fall infinitely
              short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.
                                                    --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  compulsory
       adj : required by rule; "in most schools physical education are
             compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required
             reading" [syn: {mandatory}, {required}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "compulsory":
     absolute, binding, choiceless, coactive, compelling, compulsatory,
     compulsive, conclusive, constraining, decisive, decretory,
     dictated, driving, entailed, exigent, final, hard-and-fast,
     imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, inevitable,
     involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must,
     necessary, necessitous, obligatory, peremptory, prescript,
     prescriptive, pressing, required, restraining, ultimate, urgent,
     without appeal, without choice