elective

Meanings

Plural: electives

Noun

• a course that the student can select from among alternatives
• Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.

Adjective

• subject to popular election
  • "elective official"

Adjective Satellite

• not compulsory
  • "elective surgery"
  • "an elective course of study"

Adj

• Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
• Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
• Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).

Synonyms

discretionary, elected, elective course, electoral, optional, voluntary

Antonyms

appointive, compulsory, emergent, hereditary, involuntary, mandatory, obligatory, required, unscheduled

Related Words

elect, election

Anagrams of elective