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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
compulsory
adj : required by rule; "in most schools physical education are
compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required
reading" [syn: mandatory, required]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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