obligational

1. 1.

   relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation

   “obligational authority”

Questions about obligational

What does obligational mean?

obligational means "relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation".

How many syllables are in obligational?

obligational has 6 syllables and divides as o-bli-ga-ti-o-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is obligational a common word?

obligational 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.