compulsory

Speech parts

1. compulsory - Noun

2. compulsory - Adjective

3. compulsory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mandatory required must certain necessary needed forced critical essential bound duty binding crucial vital automatic

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Antonyms

optional needless prudential free auxiliary arbitral

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Phrases with the word

not compulsory compulsory law exempt from compulsory compulsory marriage compulsory schooling compulsory feast day

Examples

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. Abbie Hoffman

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. Isabel Paterson

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. Robert H. Jackson

... It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. James Russell Lowell

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law. Alexis de Tocqueville

Compulsory prayers never reach heaven. Slovak Proverb

Close letter words and terms

compulsorily compulsorily enlisted soldier compulsoriness compulsory acquisition compulsory education compulsory expenditure