elective

Speech parts

1. elective - Noun

2. elective - Adjective

3. elective - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.

Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.

In an American college, an optional study or course of study.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

elective course elected chosen optional voluntary selective constituent discretionary facultative class democratic free subject open course
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Antonyms

appointive central must required necessary essential
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Hypernyms

class course course of study course of instruction

Phrases with the word

elective government lack of elective franchise less elective elective franchise elective monarchy elective benefit

Anagrams

cleveite

Examples

Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror. John Ashcroft

Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. Salman Rushdie

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you? Herman Cain

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution. James Bovard

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. Thomas Jefferson

Close letter words and terms

electioneerer electioneering electionspeak elective affinity elective benefit elective course