Elective vs Obligatory - What's the difference?
elective | obligatory |
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections
That involves a choice between options; optional or discretionary
* Bancroft
* Dryden
Something that is option or that may be elected, especially a course of tertiary study.
Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
* Richard Baxter
Requiring a matter or obligation.
As adjectives the difference between elective and obligatory
is that elective is while obligatory is imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.elective
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My insurance wouldn't pay for the operation because it was elective surgery.
- The independent use of their elective franchise.
- Kings of Rome were at first elective
Noun
(en noun)obligatory
English
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 .
