Grep of noun mandatory
mandatory
mandatory injunction
Overview of noun mandatory
The noun mandatory has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. mandate, mandatory -- (a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other European power)
2. mandatary, mandatory -- (the recipient of a mandate)
Overview of adj mandatory
The adj mandatory has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) compulsory, mandatory, required -- (required by rule "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading")
Antonyms of adj mandatory
1 sense of mandatory
Sense 1
compulsory, mandatory, required
INDIRECT (VIA obligatory) -> optional
Similarity of adj mandatory
1 sense of mandatory
Sense 1
compulsory, mandatory, required
=> obligatory (vs. optional)
Attributes of adj mandatory
Familiarity of adj mandatory
mandatory used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count = 1)
Grep of adj mandatory
mandatory
nonmandatory
Overview of noun mandatory
The noun mandatory has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. mandate, mandatory -- (a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and inhabited by people not yet able to stand by themselves and so put under the tutelage of some other European power)
2. mandatary, mandatory -- (the recipient of a mandate)
Overview of adj mandatory
The adj mandatory has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) compulsory, mandatory, required -- (required by rule "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading")
mandatory definition
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