Compelling vs Obligatory - What's the difference?
compelling | obligatory |
Requiring urgent attention.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
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, title= Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
* Richard Baxter
Requiring a matter or obligation.
As adjectives the difference between compelling and obligatory
is that compelling is requiring urgent attention while obligatory is imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.As a verb compelling
is present participle of lang=en.compelling
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on.}}
Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal, passage=Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.}}
obligatory
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an obligatory promise
- if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory .
