optional
left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
leaving something to choice.
Origin of optional
1Other words for optional
Other words from optional
- op·tion·al·i·ty, noun
- op·tion·al·ly, adverb
- non·op·tion·al, adjective
- non·op·tion·al·ly, adverb
- un·op·tion·al, adjective
- un·op·tion·al·ly, adverb
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How to use optional in a sentence
Optionally, it can live up to its description by crashing into targets and detonating a five-pound warhead.
Smoke Rings, Mystery Backpacks and Gun-Toting Robots: The Weird Wartech of the Korean Conflict | Kyle Mizokami | April 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRegular university credit is given, but students may attend these lectures optionally and many do so.
In many cases, for this reason, good students take the subject optionally (without credit), though doing full work in it.
College Teaching | Paul KlapperBy the Egyptians it was practised in the same manner (excepting their Priests) as by the Tyrians,—viz., optionally.
At this time the sounds Hin and others may be made, alternately or optionally, according to habit.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana | Vatsyayana
British Dictionary definitions for optional
/ (ˈɒpʃənəl) /
possible but not compulsory; left to personal choice
Derived forms of optional
- optionally, adverb
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