Mandatory vs False - What's the difference?
mandatory | false |
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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between mandatory and false
is that mandatory is obligatory; required or commanded by authority while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As a noun mandatory
is (dated|rare) a person, organisation or state who receives a mandate; a mandatary.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
Anagrams
*false
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Adjective
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