compulsorily

IPA/kəmˈpʌlsərəli/
IPA/kəmˈpʌlsərəli/

compulsorily — adverb

1. as required by an official rule or law, giving someone no real choice about whet

1.副詞B2
釋義

as required by an official rule or law, giving someone no real choice about whether to take part or do something

例句

All first-year students must compulsorily attend the fire safety workshop.

pattern: modal + compulsorily + verb

The vaccine was administered compulsorily to every healthcare worker at the hospital.

passive construction: was + verb + compulsorily

同義詞
  • by law

    less formal, used in everyday contexts where a statute or regulation applies

  • mandatorily

    same register, slightly more common in official documents and legal English

  • obligatorily

    more formal and broader in scope, covering moral or social duties as well as legal ones

反義詞
  • voluntarily

    done by choice without any external requirement

  • optionally

    available as a matter of choice, not forced

用法筆記

Frequently modifies verbs describing actions imposed by an authority (e.g. attend, administer, introduce, purchase, draft). Common in legal, educational, and administrative writing; less frequent in everyday conversation.

常見錯誤

❌Students must compulsory attend the lecture.
✅Students must compulsorily attend the lecture.
💡'compulsory' is an adjective; the adverb form 'compulsorily' is needed to modify a verb.
❌The meeting was compulsorily short.
✅The meeting was necessarily short.
💡'compulsorily' implies a rule or law requires it, whereas no rule made the meeting short.