'Elective' definitions:
Definition of 'elective'
From: WordNet
adjective
Subject to popular election; "elective official" [syn: elective, elected] [ant: appointed, appointive]
adjective
Not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study"
noun
A course that the student can select from among alternatives [syn: elective course, elective]
Definition of 'Elective'
From: GCIDE
- Elective \E*lect"ive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectif.]
- 1. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. [1913 Webster]
- The independent use of their elective franchise. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective office. [1913 Webster]
- Kings of Rome were at first elective; . . . for such are the conditions of an elective kingdom. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Dependent on choice; that can be refused; as, an elective college course. Opposite of required or mandatory. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Elective affinity or Elective attraction (Chem.), a tendency to unite with certain things; chemism. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Elective'
From: GCIDE
- Elective \E*lect"ive\, n. In an American college, an optional study or course of study; a course that is not required. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'elective'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- academic specialty,
- adoptive,
- alternative,
- appointive,
- arbitrary,
- area,
- autonomous,
- choosing,
- choosy,
- classical education,
- constituent,
- core curriculum,
- course,
- course of study,
- curriculum,
- discipline,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- discriminating,
- disjunctive,
- eclectic,
- electoral,
- field,
- free,
- free will,
- general education,
- general studies,
- gratuitous,
- humanities,
- independent,
- liberal arts,
- major,
- minor,
- nonmandatory,
- offered,
- optional,
- particular,
- proffered,
- proseminar,
- quadrivium,
- refresher course,
- scientific education,
- selecting,
- selective,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- seminar,
- specialty,
- spontaneous,
- study,
- subdiscipline,
- subject,
- technical education,
- trivium,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unforced,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- volitional,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- willful
Words containing 'Elective'
- Elect,
- Electant,
- Elected,
- Electer,
- Electic,
- Electing,
- Election,
- Electively,
- By-election,
- Elective affinity,
- Elective attraction,
- Elective franchise,
- To contest an election,
- elect lady,
- elected official,
- election commission,
- election day,
- election district,
- election fraud,
- election of grace,
- elective course,
- elective surgery,
- general election,
- primary election,
- right of election,
- runoff election,
- writ of election,
- Self-elective,
- To make one's election,
- bye-election,
- non-elective,
- Vitre-o-electic