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- obligatory
collapse - morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution"
- required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies" related words >
- absolute,
- binding,
- choiceless,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- de rigueur,
- decisive,
- decretory,
- demanded,
- dictated,
- entailed,
- essential,
- exigent,
- final,
- hard-and-fast,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- imposed,
- incumbent,
- indispensable,
- inevitable,
- involuntary,
- irrevocable,
- mandated,
- mandatory,
- must,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- peremptory,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- required,
- requisite,
- ultimate,
- urgent,
- without appeal,
- without choice
- absolute,
- authoritative,
- binding,
- canonical,
- choiceless,
- commanded,
- commanding,
- compelling,
- compulsatory,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- de rigueur,
- decisive,
- decretory,
- demanded,
- dictated,
- didactic,
- entailed,
- essential,
- exigent,
- final,
- forced,
- formulary,
- hard and fast,
- hard-and-fast,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- imposed,
- indispensable,
- inevitable,
- instructive,
- involuntary,
- irrevocable,
- mandated,
- must,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- needed,
- needful,
- obligatory,
- official,
- peremptory,
- preceptive,
- prescribed,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- regulation,
- required,
- requisite,
- rubric,
- standard,
- statutory,
- ultimate,
- urgent,
- without appeal,
- without choice
- indispensable
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- unavoidable; "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"
- not to be dispensed with; essential; "foods indispensable to good nutrition" related words >
- bare necessities,
- basic,
- bedrock,
- call for,
- called for,
- cardinal,
- central,
- compelling,
- compulsory,
- crucial,
- demand,
- demand for,
- demanded,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- essential,
- essentials,
- focal,
- fundamental,
- imperative,
- important,
- in demand,
- indicated,
- ineluctable,
- inescapable,
- irreducible,
- irreductible,
- irreplaceable,
- key,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- mandatory,
- material,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessitous,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- needed,
- needful,
- obligatory,
- occasion,
- of the essence,
- of vital importance,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- required,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- sine qua non,
- substantive,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- unavoidable,
- unforgoable,
- urgent,
- vital,
- want,
- wanted
- prerequisite
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- something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission"
- required as a prior condition or course of study related words >
- arrangement,
- bare necessities,
- basic training,
- boundary condition,
- briefing,
- call for,
- called for,
- catch,
- clause,
- clearing the decks,
- condition,
- demand,
- demand for,
- demanded,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- donnee,
- equipment,
- escalator clause,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- essential,
- essentials,
- familiarization,
- fine print,
- fixing,
- foundation,
- given,
- grounds,
- groundwork,
- imperative,
- indicated,
- indispensable,
- irreducible,
- irreductible,
- irreplaceable,
- joker,
- kicker,
- limiting condition,
- makeready,
- making ready,
- manufacture,
- mobilization,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessary,
- necessities,
- necessitous,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- needed,
- needful,
- obligation,
- obligatory,
- occasion,
- parameter,
- planning,
- prearrangement,
- precondition,
- preliminaries,
- preliminary,
- preliminary act,
- preliminary step,
- prep,
- preparation,
- preparative,
- preparatory,
- preparatory study,
- preparing,
- prepping,
- prerequirement,
- pretreatment,
- processing,
- propaedeutic,
- provident,
- provision,
- provisional,
- provisions,
- proviso,
- qualification,
- readying,
- required,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- saving clause,
- sine qua non,
- small print,
- spadework,
- specification,
- stipulation,
- string,
- terms,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- training,
- treatment,
- trial,
- tryout,
- ultimatum,
- unforgoable,
- vital,
- want,
- wanted,
- warm-up,
- whereas
- imperative
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- some duty that is essential and urgent
- requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
- relating to verbs in the imperative mood related words >
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- acid,
- acute,
- allegiance,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- ascendant,
- assigned task,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- authorized,
- autocratic,
- basic,
- behest,
- bidding,
- binding,
- biting,
- bossy,
- bounden duty,
- burden,
- burning,
- business,
- call of duty,
- canon,
- case of need,
- charge,
- choiceless,
- claimed,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- clothed with authority,
- coactive,
- code,
- command,
- commanding,
- commandment,
- commitment,
- compelling,
- competent,
- compulsatory,
- compulsive,
- compulsory,
- conclusive,
- conditional,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- constraining,
- controlling,
- convention,
- corrosive,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- cutting,
- de rigueur,
- decisive,
- decretal,
- decretive,
- decretory,
- dedication,
- deference,
- demanded,
- despotic,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- dictate,
- dictated,
- dictating,
- dictation,
- dictatorial,
- dictum,
- dire necessity,
- direct order,
- directive,
- dogmatic,
- dominant,
- domineering,
- driving,
- duly constituted,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- effective,
- eminent,
- empowered,
- entailed,
- essential,
- ethics,
- ex officio,
- exigence,
- exigency,
- exigent,
- fealty,
- feudal,
- final,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- form,
- formula,
- fundamental,
- general principle,
- golden rule,
- governing,
- great,
- grinding,
- guideline,
- guiding principle,
- gutsy,
- hard-and-fast,
- harsh,
- hegemonic,
- hegemonistic,
- hest,
- high-handed,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- homage,
- immediacy,
- imperativeness,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- important,
- importunate,
- imposed,
- impressive,
- incisive,
- indicative,
- indispensable,
- inevitable,
- influential,
- insistent,
- instant,
- instructive,
- involuntary,
- irresistible,
- irrevocable,
- jussive,
- law,
- leading,
- line of duty,
- lordly,
- loyalty,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- mandated,
- mandating,
- mandatory,
- masterful,
- matter of necessity,
- maxim,
- mighty,
- mission,
- mitzvah,
- mode,
- momentous,
- monocratic,
- mood,
- moral,
- mordant,
- must,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- nervous,
- norm,
- obligating,
- obligation,
- obligative,
- obligatory,
- official,
- onus,
- oppressive,
- optative,
- order,
- ordering,
- ordinance,
- ought,
- overbearing,
- overruling,
- penetrating,
- peremptory,
- permissive,
- piercing,
- pivotal,
- place,
- pleasure,
- poignant,
- potent,
- potential,
- powerful,
- preceptive,
- predicament,
- preeminent,
- prerequisite,
- prescript,
- prescriptive,
- pressing,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- prestigious,
- principium,
- principle,
- prominent,
- puissant,
- punchy,
- ranking,
- regulation,
- repressive,
- required,
- requisite,
- respect,
- restraining,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- say-so,
- self-imposed duty,
- senior,
- sensational,
- settled principle,
- severe,
- sinewed,
- sinewy,
- slashing,
- special order,
- standard,
- stern,
- strict,
- striking,
- strong,
- subjunctive,
- substantial,
- superior,
- suppressive,
- supreme,
- telling,
- tenet,
- totalitarian,
- trenchant,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- ultimate,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urgent need,
- vigorous,
- vital,
- weighty,
- will,
- without appeal,
- without choice,
- word,
- word of command,
- working principle,
- working rule
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