compulsory

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
compulsory
    adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is
           compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required
           reading" [syn: {compulsory}, {mandatory}, {required}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Compulsory \Com*pul"so*ry\, a. [LL. compulsorius.]
   1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
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   2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to
      compulsion.
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            This contribution threatening to fall infinitely
            short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.
                                                  --Burke.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "compulsory":
      absolute, binding, choiceless, coactive, compelling, compulsatory,
      compulsive, conclusive, constraining, decisive, decretory,
      dictated, driving, entailed, exigent, final, hard-and-fast,
      imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, inevitable,
      involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must,
      necessary, necessitous, obligatory, peremptory, prescript,
      prescriptive, pressing, required, restraining, ultimate, urgent,
      without appeal, without choice
antiflux / dictionary / compulsory
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