obligatorily
1
6.8
- adverb
- /əˈblɪɡəˌtɔːrɪli/
- Formal
:
obligatoriamente
- Safety regulations must be followed obligatorily to ensure the well-being of all workers.
Examples
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He carried with him the first of Claude's mechanical hours: the Golay brothers working their pit saw in an obligatorily bawdy manner.
Fiction book (1992) -
The opening scene of Milne's book, for instance, makes clear how different McNamara and Rostow were from each other (while not failing to obligatorily mention McNamara's reputation as an "IBM machine with legs").
Blog text (11) -
The requirements are that each record of the dataset should come from healthy subjects, have, obligatorily, a noise section, and have a higher percentage of clean signal than noisy signal.
Academic text (2017) -
He was saying obligatorily, "How many Frenchmen does it take to change a lightbulb?" as my mother poked around in the drawer looking for one.
Fiction book (2001) -
Euglossine bees are important pollinators for species in as many as 30 plant families, and many species of orchids are obligatorily pollinated by only one species of bee (Williams and Dodson 1972).
Academic text (1992) -
Ordinal numerals (with the word half obligatorily replacing the word second and with quarter optionally replacing fourth) are also used to express the denominators of fractions in English, and thus can enter into DNEs under certain conditions.
Academic text (2006) -
Hj's timeless dissertation, "Constraints on Variables in Syntax," still cited obligatorily in any work on syntactic movement, begins with a story that has "bull's eye relevance to the study of syntax."
Academic text (2006) -
Students are obligatorily required to submit their assignments by the due date.
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In some countries, vaccinations are obligatorily mandated for school enrollment.
Synonyms
1
7.2
In a way that the law or a rule says you must do it
1
7.0
In a way you must do because of a rule or law
In a way that a rule, law, or duty requires
Antonyms
How Required
- Formal
1
7.0
- Formal
1
6.8
46
3.5
7
3.9
165
3.4
3
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
obligatorily = obligatory (transparent) = obligatory + ly
Standard adverb formation from the adjective 'obligatory' with '-ly', producing 'in an obligatory way'.
Etymology
Obligatorily comes from the Latin obligare, built on ligare meaning 'to bind', and it is the same root as English oblige and obligation. Being 'bound' means you have to do something, so obligatorily means you must do it or it is 'required'.