COMPULSORY - 9 definitions found
compulsory adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) compulsory adjective Date: 1581 1. mandatory, enforced <compulsory retirement> 2. coercive, compelling <compulsory measures> • compulsorily adverb Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary compulsory If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must. In East Germany learning Russian was compulsory... Many young men are trying to get away from compulsory military conscription. = mandatory ADJ • compulsorily Five of the company's senior managers have been made compulsorily redundant. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj English Explanatory Dictionary compulsory kəmˈpʌlsərɪ adj. 1 required by law or a rule (it is compulsory to keep dogs on leads). 2 essential; necessary. øcompulsory purchase the enforced purchase of land or property by a local authority etc., for public use. øøcompulsorily adv. compulsoriness n. [med.L compulsorius (as compel)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Compulsory \Com*pul"so*ry\, a. [LL. compulsorius.] 1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining. 2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion. This contribution threatening to fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. --Burke. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms compulsory a. 1. Compelling, constraining, coercive. 2. Binding, obligatory, enforced, necessary, unavoidable, not to be evaded. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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