obligatory

Questions about obligatory

What does obligatory mean?

obligatory means "morally or legally constraining or binding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obligatory?

obligatory has 5 syllables: o-blig-a-to-ry. The stress falls on "blig". In IPA it is /əˈblɪɡəˌtɔɹi/.

What is the opposite of obligatory?

The recorded antonyms are optional.

Is obligatory a common word?

obligatory is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 obligatory?

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