mandatory

1. 1.

   required by rule

   “in most schools physical education is compulsory”

   “attendance is mandatory”

   “required reading”

   Synonymscompulsoryrequired

   Similarobligatory

Other forms of mandatory

plural

mandatories·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mandatory

What does mandatory mean?

mandatory means "the recipient of a mandate". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mandatory?

mandatory has 4 syllables: man-da-to-ry. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmændəˌtɔɹi/.

What is another word for mandatory?

Close synonyms include mandatary, mandate, compulsory, required. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mandatory a common word?

mandatory is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mandatory?

59 words rhyme with mandatory. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.