Word Meanings - OBLIGATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due.

Additional info about word: OBLIGATORY

Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier. As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jer. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLIGATORY)

• Belonging
• Related
• connected
• appertaining
• cognate
• congenial
• obligatory
• accompanying
• Binding
• Restrictive
• restraining
• stringent
• styptic
• costive
• astringent
• Owing
• attributable
• just
• fair
• proper
• suitable
• becoming
• tit
• owed
• appropriate
• Imperative
• Urgent
• irresistible
• dictatorial
• inexorable
• peremptorily
• compulsory
• Incumbent
• Pressing
• binding
• coercive
• indispensable
• urgent
• devolvent

Related words: (words related to OBLIGATORY)

• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• ATTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.
• OWLET
  A small owl; especially, the European species , and the California flammulated owlet . Owlet moth , any noctuid moth.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• BINDING
  That binds; obligatory. Binding beam , the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist , the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• OVERBROW
  To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• SNOWPLOW; SNOWPLOUGH
  An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• TOWELING
  Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.