What is another word for compulsory?
342 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kəmpˈʌlsəɹˌi], [ kəmpˈʌlsəɹˌi], [ k_ə_m_p_ˈʌ_l_s_ə_ɹ_ˌi]Table of Contents
Similar words for compulsory:- all (adjective)
- binding (adjective)
- compelling (adjective)
- destined (adjective)
- forcible (adjective)
- hard-and-fast (adjective)
- imperative (adjective)
- imperious (adjective)
- inevitable (adjective)
- inexorable (adjective)
- involuntary (adjective)
- irresistible (adjective)
- mandatory (adjective)
- necessary (adjective)
- obligatory (adjective)
- required (adjective)
- required/requisite (adjective)
- unavoidable (adjective)
- undeniable (adjective)
- compulsory (noun)
- necessary (noun)
- other synonyms
- necessary
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Compulsory:
adj.
•all (adjective) •binding (adjective) •compelling (adjective) •destined (adjective)- most foreordained,
- most brewing,
- more brewing,
- ordained,
- way ball bounces,
- de signed,
- de-signed,
- more compelled,
- most overhanging,
- more foreordained,
- most compelled,
- most predesigned,
- more meant,
- in escapable,
- most designed,
- more predestined,
- over-hanging,
- more designed,
- in cards,
- pre-destined,
- overhanging,
- most meant,
- in-tended,
- pre-determined,
- more overhanging,
- pre-designed,
- fore-ordained,
- pre designed,
- in wind,
- pre determined,
- that is be,
- most predestined,
- more predesigned,
- pre destined,
- over hanging,
- fore ordained,
- in tended,
- in-escapable.
- overweening,
- more compulsatory,
- high-handed,
- ex acting,
- high handed,
- ex-acting,
- over-weening,
- over weening,
- most compulsatory.
- in bag,
- de creed,
- de-creed,
- un preventable,
- more decreed,
- in-evitable,
- more ineludible,
- pre scribed,
- pre-scribed,
- most unpreventable,
- in flexible,
- unpreventable,
- in-flexible,
- in the bag,
- un-preventable,
- more unpreventable,
- most ineludible,
- irresistible,
- fated,
- in evitable,
- most decreed,
- no ifs ands buts.
- un movable,
- re-solute,
- in-exorable,
- remorseless,
- re solute,
- un-movable,
- un-yielding,
- un-appeasable,
- un relenting,
- set stone,
- un compromising,
- single minded,
- like death taxes,
- un yielding,
- bound determined,
- un-bending,
- un bending,
- un appeasable,
- in exorable,
- un-compromising.
- more will-less,
- un-witting,
- re flexer,
- un conscious,
- un-calculated,
- most begrudging,
- re flex,
- more unmeditated,
- most grudging,
- willless,
- most willless,
- un willing,
- more willless,
- more begrudging,
- more will less,
- un intended,
- un prompted,
- most will-less,
- un-conscious,
- un-prompted,
- more uncalculated,
- re-flex,
- re-flexer,
- most unprompted,
- be grudging,
- most reflexive,
- un-intentional,
- un-willing,
- un-controlled,
- will less,
- un witting,
- un intentional,
- un calculated,
- un meditated,
- most uncalculated,
- more unprompted,
- un controlled,
- most unmeditated,
- re flexest,
- in voluntary,
- un-intended,
- more grudging,
- more reflexive,
- most will less,
- un-meditated,
- in-voluntary,
- un-thinking,
- kneejerk,
- un thinking,
- un-premeditated,
- be-grudging,
- re-flexest.
- more all-important,
- bottomline,
- more bottom-line,
- more allimportant,
- more all important,
- most bottom-line,
- para mount,
- most all-important,
- most allimportant,
- most all important,
- most bottom line,
- more necessary,
- pre requisite,
- all important,
- para-mount,
- most bottomline,
- name game,
- allimportant,
- more bottomline,
- wanted,
- more bottom line.
- more condign,
- more demanded,
- most demanded,
- de-served,
- most condign,
- de served,
- re-commended,
- re commended.
- more inevasible,
- unescapable,
- Inevasible,
- un escapable,
- un avoidable,
- open shut,
- more unescapable,
- un-escapable,
- most unescapable,
- un-avoidable,
- locked up,
- open and shut,
- most inevasible.
- in-controvertible,
- un-assailable,
- in dubitable,
- in-arguable,
- no ifs buts,
- un answerable,
- in controvertible,
- in disputable,
- most unanswerable,
- in-contestable,
- un-questionable,
- in-disputable,
- un doubted,
- un-doubted,
- no ifs or buts,
- in contestable,
- more unanswerable,
- in-dubitable,
- no ifs and buts,
- un-answerable,
- in arguable,
- un-deniable,
- un deniable.
n.
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- obligation.
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- willing.
Other synonyms:
•necessary •Other relevant words:- despotic,
- bounden,
- irrevocable,
- compelled,
- ineluctable,
- restrictive,
- life-or-death,
- autocratic,
- Decretory,
- compel,
- needed,
- driven,
- compulsive,
- life-and-death,
- high-priority,
- Avoidless,
- tyrannical,
- commanding,
- jammed in,
- enforced,
- demanding,
- prescriptive,
- Commanded,
- central,
- imprisoned,
- Coerced,
- fundamental,
- cardinal,
- dictatorial,
- constrained,
- irresponsible,
- haughty,
- aggressive,
- peremptory,
- dogmatic,
- ultimate,
- automatic,
- arrogant,
- Coactive,
- necessitous,
- pivotal,
- reluctant,
- of the essence,
- violent,
- decisive,
- crucial,
- driving,
- under restraint,
- in swaddling clothes,
- prisoner,
- important,
- sine qua non,
- at the head,
- influential,
- Restraining,
- urgent,
- prescript,
- resistless,
- mandated,
- paramount,
- positive,
- uncontrollable,
- lordly,
- Demanded,
- stringent,
- absolute,
- overbearing,
- exacting,
- unequivocal,
- wedged in,
- imposed,
- Entailed,
- preponderant,
- restrained,
- without choice,
- critical,
- arbitrary,
- top-priority,
- domineering,
- in custody,
- in the ascendant,
- under hatches,
- unconditional,
- key,
- controlling,
- supreme,
- compulsorily,
- dominant,
- dictated,
- final,
- Choiceless,
- authoritative,
- predominant,
- exigent,
- conclusive,
- nonelective.
Paraphrases for Compulsory:
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Equivalence
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Cardinal number
mandatory.
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Determiner
mandatory, obligatory.
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Adjective
mandatory, obligatory.
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Proper noun, singular
mandatory, obligatory.
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Noun, singular or mass
mandatory, obligatory.
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Adverb
mandatory.
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Cardinal number
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
non-compulsory.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
peremptory, compulsive, non-compensatory, enforceable, compelling, compensatory, restrictive, prescriptive, Coerced, forceful, indispensable, overarching, constraining, imperative, duty-bound, prescribed, requisite, obligate, required, optional, obligated, non-discretionary.
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Proper noun, singular
required.
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Noun, singular or mass
Les, non-compensatory, compulsion, imperative, required.
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Adverb
mandatorily, obligatorily, necessarily, forcefully.
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Verb, base form
compel.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adverb
compulsorily.
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Adverb
Antonyms for Compulsory:
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adj.
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binding
liberated, optional, voluntary, inessential, unnecessary, free, unstipulated, Liberalized.
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Other antonyms:
contingent, conditional, unwanted, submissive, insignificant, dispensable, humble, lowly, meek, ductile, accountable, inconsequential, nonessential, constitutional, yielding, chosen, unneeded, mild, unimportant, responsible, gentle, lenient, compliant, limited, docile, complaisant.
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binding
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Other antonyms:
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n.
discretional.
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n.
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n.
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compulsory
discretionary.
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compulsory