obligatorily

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i)

Proto-Italic *op

Latin ob

Latin ob-

Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-der.

Latin ligō

Latin obligō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -tōrius

Latin obligātōriusbor.

Middle English obligatorie

English obligatory

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English obligatorily

From obligatory + -ly.

Adverb

obligatorily (comparative more obligatorily, superlative most obligatorily)

1. In an obligatory manner.

   Synonym: obligately

   Near-synonyms: necessarily; mandatorily; imperatively; (sometimes) by nature

   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 56:

     In essence, we evolved defenses that rendered us nearly invincible and allowed us to become obligatorily social.