Facultative vs Obligatory - What's the difference?
facultative | obligatory |
Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty
Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective
That grants permission or power to do something
(biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way
(geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.
Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
* Richard Baxter
Requiring a matter or obligation.
As adjectives the difference between facultative and obligatory
is that facultative is of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty while obligatory is imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.facultative
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* obligateDerived terms
* facultativelyReferences
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Anagrams
* ----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 .
