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mandatory
adjective as in required, necessary
Strongest matches
binding, compulsory, de rigueur, essential, forced, imperative, indispensable, involuntary, obligatory
Strong match
Weak matches
commanding, compelling, compulsatory, imperious, irremissible, needful
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Example Sentences
Now Wisconsin is considering making it mandatory for parents who adopt overseas to have their children “re-adopted” in the state.
For example, at age 10, he completed the local two-year mandatory preparatory program in just one year.
And Americans overwhelmingly support eliminating mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
Thankfully, testing performers for STDs is mandatory—or so we thought.
Suspicion of exposure to Ebola, for example, is sufficient to justify mandatory isolation.
The requirement of conformity to this higher conventional standard becomes mandatory.
But the task has seemed mandatory as the manners of a people can not otherwise be fully understood.
German New Guinea (now a British mandatory) lies not far away.
At my final interview he said that he had had difficulty in preventing Congress from making the retaliatory resolution mandatory.
This was from some one acting as President Colbrith's secretary, and its wording was concisely mandatory.
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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mandatory, such as: binding, compulsory, de rigueur, essential, forced, and imperative.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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