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Synonyms & Antonyms of obligatory
1
forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law
- in this state, school attendance is obligatory until the age of 16
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2
used or heard so often as to be dull
- the obligatory cliff-hanger endings for season finales of TV shows
Synonyms for obligatory
- banal,
- cliché
- (also cliche),
- clichéd,
- cobwebby,
- commonplace,
- hack,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- shopworn,
- stale,
- stereotyped,
- threadbare,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- trite,
- well-worn
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- canned,
- cardboard,
- conventional,
- cookie-cutter,
- derivative,
- imitative,
- ready-made,
- tried-and-true,
- unimaginative,
- uninspired,
- unoriginal
- arid,
- barren,
- boring,
- colorless,
- drab,
- dreary,
- drudging,
- dry,
- dull,
- dusty,
- flat,
- heavy,
- ho-hum,
- humdrum,
- jading,
- jejune,
- leaden,
- mind-numbing,
- monotonous,
- numbing,
- old,
- pedantic,
- pedestrian,
- ponderous,
- prosaic,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- tame,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- undramatic,
- uninteresting,
- vapid,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- wearying
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“Obligatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obligatory. Accessed 6 Oct. 2022.
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