Mandatory

Adjective

 * 1) Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
 * Attendance at a school is usually mandatory.
 * 1) *1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276
 * This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
 * Of, or relating to a mandate.

Antonyms

 * optional

Derived terms

 * mandatoriness

Thesaurus
absolute, authoritative, binding, canonical, choiceless, commanded, commanding, compelling, compulsatory, compulsory, conclusive, de rigueur, decisive, decretory, demanded, dictated, didactic, entailed, essential, exigent, final, forced, formulary, hard and fast, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, indispensable, inevitable, instructive, involuntary, irrevocable, mandated, must, necessary, necessitous, needed, needful, obligatory, official, peremptory, preceptive, prescribed, prescript, prescriptive, regulation, required, requisite, rubric, standard, statutory, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice

Etymology
< mandatorius: < mandator:; see mandate.

Translations

 * Arabic: إجباري, مفروض
 * Bulgarian: задължителен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: zwingend notwendig, obligatorisch


 * Hebrew: הכרחי
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 의무적인
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: obowiązkowy
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: обязательный
 * Spanish: ,

Anagrams

 * damnatory