About The Word Optional
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Optional
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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 See Also | 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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