optional
[ op-shuh-nl ]
/ ˈɒp ʃə nl /
adjective
left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
leaving something to choice.
SYNONYMS FOR optional
OTHER WORDS FROM optional
Words nearby optional
optimum,
optimum dose,
optimum population,
option,
option money,
optional,
optionee,
opto-,
optoelectronics,
optokinetic,
optometer
Example sentences from the Web for optionally
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 |DAILY BEASTAt this time the sounds Hin and others may be made, alternately or optionally, according to habit.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana |VatsyayanaBy the Egyptians it was practised in the same manner (excepting their Priests) as by the Tyrians,—viz., optionally.
British Dictionary definitions for optionally
optional
/ (ˈɒpʃənəl) /
adjective
possible but not compulsory; left to personal choice