If school wasn't obligatory, I would stop going there.
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Obligatory
//əˈblɪɡətɔɹi//
Synonyms for "obligatory" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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Antonyms
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3 entriesRelated terms
13 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
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18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
40 translations across 26 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- verpligte adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- verpligtend adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Armenian
1 entries- պարտադիր adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- məcburi adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Belarusian
1 entries- абавязко́вы adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Bengali
3 entries- ওয়াজিব adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- ফরজ adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- বাধ্যতামূলক adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Bulgarian
1 entries- задължителен adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Catalan
1 entries- obligatori adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Czech
1 entries- povinný adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Dutch
1 entries- verplicht adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Esperanto
1 entries- deviga adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Finnish
3 entries- pakollinen adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- sitova adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- velvoittava adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
French
1 entries- obligatoire adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Georgian
4 entries- აუცილებელი adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- იმპერატიული adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- ობლიგატური adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- სავალდებულო adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
German
1 entries- obligatorisch adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Greek
1 entries- υποχρεωτικός adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Hungarian
1 entries- kötelező adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Italian
1 entries- obbligatorio adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bindende adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- forpliktende adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- obligatorisk adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Polish
2 entries- obowiązkowy adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- wiążący adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Portuguese
1 entries- obrigatório adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Russian
2 entries- непреме́нный adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- обяза́тельный adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Slovak
2 entries- povinný adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- záväzný adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Spanish
2 entries- comisorio adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
- obligatorio adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Turkish
1 entries- zorunlu adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Ukrainian
1 entries- обов'язко́вий adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Yiddish
1 entries- אָבליגאַטאָריש adj (binding — see also mandatory, compulsory)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Presence of all members is obligatory.
Source: tatoeba (897254)
One may add matres lectionis when the word could be ambiguous, but surely it is not obligatory.
Source: tatoeba (2005116)
Is it obligatory to rent a car?
Source: tatoeba (3671057)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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