Word Meanings - OPTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPTIONAL)

• Discretional
• Optional
• Voluntary
• Deliberate
• free
• intentional
• optional
• discretional
• unconstrained
• willing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OPTIONAL)

• Shelve
• burke
• discard
• hazard
• chance
• risk

Related words: (words related to OPTIONAL)

• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• WILLING
  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
• WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
  A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
• WILLINGLY
  In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison.
• WILLOW-WORT
  Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family.
• WILLEMITE
  A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals containing manganese.
• WILLY NILLY
  See WILL
• VOLUNTARY
  Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• WILLIER
  One who works at a willying machine.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
• HAZARD
  1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller. 2. To venture to incur, or bring
• INTENTIONAL
  Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• WILLOWISH
  Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.
• WILLOWED
  Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• UNVOLUNTARY
  Involuntary. Fuller.
• TOWILLY
  The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• FREEWILL
  Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. Frewill Baptists. See under Baptist.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• UNWILL
  To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.