Compulsory vs. Necessary — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Compulsory and Necessary
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Compulsory
Required by law or a rule; obligatory
Compulsory military service
It was compulsory to attend mass
Necessary
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.
Compulsory
Obligatory; required
A compulsory examination.
Necessary
Unavoidable, inevitable.
If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
Compulsory
Employing or exerting compulsion; coercive.
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Necessary
Needed or required
A contract complete with the necessary signatures.
Conditions necessary to life.
Compulsory
An element, such as a dive or school figure, required of all competitors in an athletic competition.
Necessary
Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable
The necessary results of overindulgence.
Compulsory
Required; obligatory; mandatory.
The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.
Necessary
Logically inevitable
A necessary conclusion.
Compulsory
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Such compulsory measures are limited.
Necessary
Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention
Made the necessary apologies.
Compulsory
Something that is compulsory or required.
Necessary
Something indispensable.
Compulsory
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Necessary
(obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
Compulsory
Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to compulsion.
This contribution threatening to fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory.
Necessary
A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
Compulsory
Required by rule;
In most schools physical education are compulsory
Attendance is mandatory
Required reading
Necessary
(obsolete) Necessity.
Necessary
Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.
Necessary
Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requisite; essential.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
Necessary
Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Necessary
A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
Necessary
A privy; a water-closet.
Necessary
Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Necessary
Anything indispensable;
Food and shelter are necessities of life
The essentials of the good life
Allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
Necessary
Absolutely essential
Necessary
Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances;
The necessary consequences of one's actions
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