Elective Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭ-lĕktĭv
Pertaining to the right to choose by vote
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. constituent
  2. voting
  3. elected
Subject to choice
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. discretionary
  2. optional
  3. voluntary
  4. constituent
  5. facultative
  6. elected
  7. not required
  8. electoral
  9. not compulsory
Antonyms:
  1. required
  2. appointive
A course that the student can select from among alternatives
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. elective course

Words Related to Elective

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. choice
  2. outpatient
  3. out-patient
  4. inpatient
  5. in-patient

Elective Sentence Examples

  • The system of local self-government is continued, so far as the 34 governments of old Russia are concerned, 6 in the elective district and provincial assemblies (zemstvos).

  • The last section is partly elective and partly nominated.

  • There is also an elective general council.

  • Alfred de Musset was introduced, and the two natures leapt together as by elective affinity.

  • He summed up his results in the general statement that "hydrogen, the alkaline substances, the metals and certain metallic oxides are attracted by negatively electrified metallic surfaces, and repelled by positively electrified metallic surfaces; and contrariwise, that oxygen and acid substances are attracted by positively electrified metallic surfaces and repelled by negatively electrified metallic surfaces; and these attractive and repulsive forces are sufficiently energetic to destroy or suspend the usual operation of elective affinity."

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