Word Meanings - COMPULSORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining. 2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPULSORY)

• Imperative
• Urgent
• irresistible
• dictatorial
• inexorable
• peremptorily
• compulsory
• obligatory
• Necessary
• Certain
• inevitable
• indispensable
• requisite
• essential
• needful
• expedient
• Pressing
• Urgent compulsory
• importunate

Related words: (words related to COMPULSORY)

• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• NEEDFUL
  1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. Chaucer. The needful time of trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite. All things needful for defense abound. Dryden. -- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n.
• NECESSARY
  1. Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shak. 2. Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result;
• INEVITABLENESS
  The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• EXPEDIENTIAL
  . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• URGENT
  Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send
• PRESSURAGE
  1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.
• EXPEDIENTLY
  1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• PRESSWORK
  The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. MacKellar.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• PRESSLY
  Closely; concisely.
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• COMPULSORY
  1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining. 2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.
• INDISPENSABLE
  Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet. 3. Unavoidable; inevitable. Fuller. (more info) 1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely
• PREREQUISITE
  Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• ASSURGENT
  Ascending;
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• INEXPEDIENT
  Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
• EXURGENT
  Arising; coming to light.
• RESURGENT
  Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
• ESPRESSIVO
  With expression.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.