nonmandatory

1. 1.

   not required by rule or law

   Synonymsnonobligatory

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Questions about nonmandatory

What does nonmandatory mean?

nonmandatory means "not required by rule or law".

How many syllables are in nonmandatory?

nonmandatory has 5 syllables: non-man-da-to-ry. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for nonmandatory?

Close synonyms include nonobligatory. 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 nonmandatory a common word?

nonmandatory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.