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| Main Entry: | compulsory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | binding |
| Synonyms: | de rigueur, forced, imperative, imperious, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, required, requisite, compulsatory |
| Antonyms: | free, optional, voluntary, liberalized, liberated, unstipulated |
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| Main Entry: | forcible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful, aggressive |
| Synonyms: | active, armed, assertive, cogent, compelling, compulsory, drastic, effective, efficient, energetic, forceful, impressive, intense, mighty, militant, persuasive, potent, strong, telling, valid, vehement, vigorous, violent, weighty, coercive, puissant |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
| Antonyms: | weak, nonaggressive |
| Main Entry: | imperious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bossy, overbearing |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, authoritative, autocratic, commanding, compulsory, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, exacting, haughty, high-handed, imperative, imperial, mandatory, obligatory, oppressive, overweening, peremptory, required, tyrannical, compulsatory, tyrannous |
| Antonyms: | fawning, helpless, humble, obedient, servile, subservient, weak |
| Main Entry: | inevitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | certain; cannot be avoided |
| Synonyms: | assured, binding, compulsory, decided, destined, determined, doomed, fated, fateful, fixed, imminent, impending, in the bag*, ineluctable, inescapable, inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable, necessary, obligatory, ordained, pat*, prescribed, settled, sure, unalterable, unavoidable, undeniable, all locked up, decreed, for certain, foreordained, ineludible, no ifs ands or buts, unpreventable, without recourse |
| Antonyms: | avoidable, doubtful, fortuitous, uncertain, unlikely, unsure, escapable, preventable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inexorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, pitiless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bound, bound and determined, compulsory, dogged, hard, harsh, immobile, immovable, implacable, ineluctable, inescapable, inflexible, ironclad, mean business*, merciless, necessary, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, remorseless, resolute, rigid, severe, single-minded, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, adamantine, dead set on, hell bent on, like death and taxes, locked in, no going back, set in stone, unappeasable, unmovable |
| Antonyms: | flexible, lenient, merciful, remorseful, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | involuntary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | automatic; not done willingly |
| Synonyms: | automatic, blind, compulsory, conditioned, forced, habitual, impulsive, instinctive, knee-jerk*, obligatory, reflex, reluctant, spontaneous, unconscious, uncontrolled, unintentional, unpremeditated, unthinking, unwilling, unwitting, begrudging, grudging, instinctual, reflexive, uncalculated, unintended, unmeditated, unprompted, will-less |
| Antonyms: | conscious, intentional, voluntary, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mandatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | required, necessary |
| Synonyms: | binding, commanding, compelling, compulsory, de rigueur, essential, forced, imperative, imperious, indispensable, involuntary, obligatory, requisite, compulsatory, irremissible, needful |
| Antonyms: | optional, unnecessary, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | obligatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential, required |
| Synonyms: | binding, compulsory, de rigueur, enforced, imperative, imperious, mandatory, necessary, requisite, unavoidable, coercive, compulsatory |
| Antonyms: | nonessential, optional, voluntary, unrequired |
| Main Entry: | required/requisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, compulsory, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital, called for, compulsatory, condign, demanded, needful |
| Antonyms: | nonessential, optional, unnecessary |
| Main Entry: | unavoidable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound to happen |
| Synonyms: | certain, compulsory, fated, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, necessary, obligatory, set, sure, ineludible, inevasible, locked up, open and shut, unescapable |
| Antonyms: | avoidable, escapable |
| Main Entry: | undeniable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | definite, proven |
| Synonyms: | actual, binding, certain, clear, compulsory, evident, for sure*, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefutable, manifest, necessary, obligatory, obvious, patent, positive, real, sound, sure, sure thing*, true, undoubted, unquestionable, beyond doubt, beyond question, inarguable, incontestable, no ifs and or buts, open and shut, unanswerable, unassailable |
| Antonyms: | disputable, indefinite, contestable, doubted, unproven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hard-and-fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strict |
| Synonyms: | absolute, binding, carved in stone, compulsory, conclusive, decisive, exacting, final, inflexible, irrevocable, mandatory, set, unalterable, unbending, written, dictated, set in concrete |
| Main Entry: | required |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, compulsory, deserved, due, enforced, essential, imperative, imperious, indispensable, just, mandatory, needed, obligatory, prerequisite, prescribed, recommended, requisite, right, rightful, set, suitable, unavoidable, vital, called for, compulsatory, condign, demanded, needful |
| Antonyms: | optional, inessential |
| Main Entry: | binding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | compulsory, conclusive, essential, imperative, indissoluble, irrevocable, mandatory, obligatory, required, requisite, unalterable, bounden, counted upon, incumbent on |
| Main Entry: | destined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bound for, fated in near future |
| Synonyms: | at hand, certain, closed, coming, compulsory, directed, doomed, forthcoming, impending, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, instant, intended, looming, menacing, near, ordained, predetermined, que sera sera*, sealed, settled, stated, threatening, unavoidable, brewing, compelled, condemned, designed, foreordained, hanging over, in prospect, in store, in the cards, in the wind, meant, overhanging, predesigned, predestined, that is to be, that will be, to come, way the ball bounces |
| Antonyms: | avoidable, unscheduled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, essential, exigent, immediate, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, obligatory, pressing, urgent, vital, no turning back |
| Antonyms: | optional, secondary, unnecessary, voluntary, inessential |
| Main Entry: | necessary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
| Synonyms: | basic, binding, cardinal, chief, compelling, compulsory, crucial, de rigueur*, decisive, elementary, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, momentous, needed, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, quintessential, required, requisite, significant, specified, unavoidable, urgent, vital, wanted, all-important, bottom-line, incumbent on, name of game, needful |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, unnecessary, useless, inessential |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | coercion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
pungent, bold, coactive, coercive, compelled, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, dynamic, dynamical, elevated, eloquent, expostulatory, forceful, forcible, full of point, glowing, impassioned, impressive, incisive, ineluctable, inexorable, intercessory, irresistible, lively, lofty, mediatorial, nervous, obligatory, peremptory, petulant, piquant, pithy, poetic, pointed, powerful, protested, pulsive, racy, sensational, slashing, sparkling, spirited, stringent, sublime, trenchant, vehement, vigorous
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