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Unavoidable vs Obligatory - What's the difference?

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Unavoidable is a related term of obligatory.


As adjectives the difference between unavoidable and obligatory

is that unavoidable is impossible to avoid; bound to happen while obligatory is imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.

As a noun unavoidable

is something that cannot be avoided.

unavoidable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
  • (legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
    • (Blackstone)

    Usage notes

    * See usage notes at inevitable.

    Synonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitable

    Antonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) avoidable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be avoided.
  • * 1825 , The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)
    • Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least

    obligatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
    • an obligatory promise
  • * Richard Baxter
    • 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 .
  • Requiring a matter or obligation.

    • Antonyms

    * optional

    Related terms

    * obligate * obligated * obligation * obligational * obligato * obligatorily * oblige * obligee * obliger * obliging * obligingly * obligingness * obligor

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