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| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | forced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compulsory, strained |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, binding, bound, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden*, begrudging, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, grudging |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
| Antonyms: | spontaneous, voluntary, noncompulsory, unforced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | prerequisite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | essential, expedient, imperative, important, indispensable, mandatory, obligatory, required, requisite, vital, called for, necessitous, needful, of the essence |
| Antonyms: | optional, unnecessary, voluntary |
| 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: | de rigueur |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | socially obligatory |
| Synonyms: | au fait, conventional, correct, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, proper, required, right, a must, called for, comme il faut, conforming to accepted standards |
| 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: | 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
| Main Entry: | authoritative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | official, authorized |
| Synonyms: | administrative, approved, canonical, ex officio, executive, imperial, lawful, legal, legitimate, magisterial, mandatory, ruling, sanctioned, sovereign, supreme, bureaucratic, departmental, ex cathedra |
| Antonyms: | democratic |
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