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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
absolute, binding, choiceless, coactive, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, conclusive, constraining, decisive, decretory, dictated, driving, entailed, exigent, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, imperious, importunate, imposed, inevitable, involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, mandated, mandatory, must, necessary, necessitous, obligatory, peremptory, prescript, prescriptive, pressing, required, restraining, ultimate, urgent, without appeal, without choice
Dictionary Results for compulsory:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
compulsory
    adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is
           compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required
           reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Compulsory \Com*pul"so*ry\, a. [LL. compulsorius.]
   1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
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   2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to
      compulsion.
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            This contribution threatening to fall infinitely
            short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.
                                                  --Burke.
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