COMPULSATORY

Definition: COMPULSATORY

COMPULSATORY

Adjective

1. Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "COMPULSATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Note: Compulsatory \Com*pul"sa*to*ry\, adjective. Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraining; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion.. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: COMPULSATORY

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Compulsion	Adjective: compelling; Verb: coercive, coactive; inexorable; compulsory, compulsatory; obligatory, stringent, peremptory.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Rhyming with "COMPULSATORY"

Words rhyming with "COMPULSATORY" (pronounced 'Com*pul"sa*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Anagrams: COMPULSATORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-m-o-o-p-r-s-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: compulsory, copulatory, cotylosaur, osculatory.
	-3 letters: alumroots, amorously, clamorous, colostrum, customary, cytoplasm, playrooms, pulmotors, uprootals.
	-4 letters: alumroot, caltrops, carpools, clamours, comparts, complots, comports, copastor, costmary, locators, locutory, marplots, outcrops, outplays, outprays, plastrum, playroom, polycots, polyomas, porously, postoral, postural, prosomal, pulmotor, pulsator, sculptor, taprooms, touracos, uprootal, uroscopy.
	-5 letters: amorous, autopsy, caltrop, calypso, captors, carolus, carpool, clamors.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-m-o-o-p-r-s-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: campylotropous.
	+5 letters: contemporaneously.
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