About The Word Optional

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Optional

Optional Meaning & Definition
Optional Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Optional?

[adj] possible but not necessary; left to personal choice

Synonyms | Synonyms for Optional: elective | ex gratia | facultative | nonmandatory | nonobligatory

Related Terms | Find terms related to Optional: alternative | arbitrary | autonomous | discretional | discretionary | disjunctive | elective | free | free will | gratuitous | independent | nonmandatory | offered | proffered | self-acting | self-active | self-determined | self-determining | spontaneous | unasked | unbesought | unbidden | uncalled-for | uncoerced | uncompelled | unforced | uninfluenced | uninvited | unpressured | unprompted | unrequested | unrequired | unsolicited | unsought | volitional | voluntary | volunteer | willful

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Optional In Webster's Dictionary

\Op"tion*al\, a. Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n. See {Elective}, n. If to the former the movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional. --Palfrey. Original writs are either optional or peremptory. --Blackstone.

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