Expected vs Mandatory - What's the difference?
expected | mandatory |
Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
(expect)
Obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
* 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
Of, being or relating to a mandate.
(dated, rare) A person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.
As adjectives the difference between expected and mandatory
is that expected is anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur while mandatory is obligatory; required or commanded by authority.As a verb expected
is past tense of expect.As a noun mandatory is
a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.expected
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The expected storm never arrived.
Antonyms
* unexpected * surprising * unlikelyDerived terms
* expectedly * expectednessVerb
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*mandatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Attendance at a school is usually mandatory .
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
- Mandatory Palestine
Synonyms
* compulsory * obligatoryAntonyms
* (obligatory) optional * (obligatory) electiveDerived terms
* mandatorinessNoun
(mandatories)External links
* * *Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary*
The Oxford English Dictionary