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Definition of Optional
1. Adjective. Possible but not necessary; left to personal choice.
Definition of Optional
1. 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.
Definition of Optional
1. Adjective. Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Optional
1. an elective course of study [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optional
Literary usage of Optional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primary Elections: A Study of the History and Tendencies of Primary Election by Charles Edward Merriam (1909)
"It may be observed, in the first place, that the tendency toward optional laws,
which had marked the beginning of the movement and its early stages, ..."
2. American Commercial Legislation Before 1789 by Albert Anthony Giesecke (1910)
"pilotage legislation, to supervise the examination of candidates and the duties
of pilots.63 Compulsory and optional Pilotage. The rates imposed on vessels ..."
3. Catalogue by North Carolina. University, Newburyport, Newburyport Public library, Public library (1897)
"Admission of optional Students. A person who desires to take up an optional course
of study, ... A candidate so admitted is called an optional Student. ..."
4. Principles and Problems of Government by Charles Grove Haines (1921)
"It has been suggested that it is very probable that if amendments were approved
by decided majorities in the legislatures and then submitted to an optional ..."
5. Public opinion and popular government by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1913)
"Compulsory and optional FOR more than a generation the Swiss have used the
referendum freely in two distinct forms. One of these is known as compulsory, ..."
6. Commentaries on the Law of Contracts: Being a Consideration of the Nature ...by William Frederick Elliott by William Frederick Elliott (1913)
"optional contracts. — Specific performance can not be given of a contract the
performance of which is optional with both parties.80 Many cases hold that one ..."
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