Important vs Compulsory - What's the difference?
important | compulsory |
Having relevant and crucial value.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 *1988, (Robert Ferro), Second Son :
*:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= Required; obligatory; mandatory.
* 1827 , A. D. Jr., Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , A. and C. Black, page 212:
* 1996 , (Ugo Pagano), Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise , page 73:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Something that is compulsory or required.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 22, author=The Associated Press, title=French Victory in Ice Dance, work=New York Times
, passage=Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance. }}
As adjectives the difference between important and compulsory
is that important is having relevant and crucial value while compulsory is required; obligatory; mandatory.As a noun compulsory is
something that is compulsory or required.important
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
Synonyms
* (l) * See alsoAntonyms
* unimportant * negligibleDerived terms
* importantly, importantness, unimportant, VIPcompulsory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
- Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Synonyms
* mandatoryAntonyms
* (required) optionalNoun
(compulsories)citation