Optional vs Obligatory - What's the difference?
optional | obligatory | Antonyms |
Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
* Richard Baxter
Requiring a matter or obligation.
Obligatory is a antonym of optional.
As adjectives the difference between optional and obligatory
is that optional is not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective while obligatory is imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.optional
English
Adjective
(-)- On that beach clothing is entirely optional .
Antonyms
* obligatory * mandatory * compulsoryobligatory
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 .
