Crossword clues for optional
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Optional \Op"tion*al\, a. Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; allowed but 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
WordNet
adj. possible but not necessary; left to personal choice [ant: obligatory]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "optional".
France by the law on optional arbitration, and in England by the Conciliation Act of 1896.
Large black hairs growing out of the warts were preferred but still optional, no one ever accused the people of Galder of being inflexible.
Add the optional almonds and each serving has 19 grams of carbohydrates and 5 grams of fiber, for a total of 14 grams of usable carbs and 3 grams of protein.
The cauliflower rice is optional with this, but it takes very little extra time, adds only 1 gram of extra carbs to a serving, and makes this seem more like a meal.
Hickory Smoked Salt 1 tsp sage lots black pepper maple syrup, optional The secret to good sausage is to keep everything cold, including the meat grinder.
Each unit featured a wide front porch with a swing or rockers, bird feeders and hanging ferns optional.
In the locative, allative and ablative, it is optional whether one uses the simplest endings -ssë, -nna, -llo or their plural forms -ssen, -nnar or -llon (alternatively -llor).
In the example given above, the proposition, there exists a perfect justice, is not made as an assertory, but only as an optional judgment, which may be accepted or not, the consequence only being assertory.
A stew is simply the peasant's old friend the beanpot, supplied with a sufficient amount of meat to supply all ten essential amino acids for the meal, so that beans are happily rendered merely optional.
He knows the names of the muscles, knows how to attach the patches himself, and does a great deal of optional study in his own quarters, under a cataphoric dose hardly more than you might use in your own home for an entertainment tape, because he has learned now to induce a learning-state without the use of the drug.
He knows the names of the muscles, knows how to attach the patches himself, and does a great deal of optional study in his own quarters, under a cataphoric dose hardly more than you might use in your own home for an entertainment tape, because he has learned how to induce a learning-state without the use of the drug.
His term paper, an optional project on the mutation of angoran ovines, demonstrated an in-depth appreciation of genetic manipulation.
As long as it's optional, some employees will continue to hoard their hours and cash out at retirement.
Kayla tried not to look-it seemed as if wherever this was, it was strictly clothing optional.
Kayla tried not to lookit seemed as if wherever this was, it was strictly clothing optional.