Antonyms for obligatory
əˈblɪg əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈɒb lɪ gə-oblig·a·to·ry

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1. obligatoryadjective

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2. obligatoryadjective

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3. obligatoryadjective

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1. obligatoryadjective

   morally or legally constraining or binding

   "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"

   Antonyms:
   ex gratia, nonobligatory, unneeded, optional, unnecessary, nonmandatory, elective, facultative

2. obligatoryadjective

   required by obligation or compulsion or convention

   "he made all the obligatory apologies"

   Antonyms:
   facultative, optional, unneeded, ex gratia, elective, nonobligatory, nonmandatory, unnecessary

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1. obligatoryadjective

   Antonyms:
   optional, discretional

   Synonyms:
   binding, incumbent, imperative, coercive

How to use obligatory in a sentence?

1. Lewis Lapham:

   Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

2. Angel Kunchev:

   We plan to lift the obligatory quarantine for Bulgarians returning from abroad and for travellers from the European Union countries and Serbia and North Macedonia, we will keep it for the eight EU countries that have the biggest registered cases in the past two weeks.

3. Cicero:

   There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

4. President Ivan Duque:

   Between May 11 and May 25 we will extend the obligatory preventative isolation but recover space for productive life.

5. Weichan Auka Mapu:

   In terms of resistance, we incorporate an armed element as an obligatory response to the systemic violence that the Chilean state has exercised against the Mapuche people.

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