Dictionary Entry
elective
elective is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
- 2adjective
Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
- 3adjective
Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
- 4noun
In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
- 5noun
a course that the student can select from among alternatives
- 6adjective
subject to popular election
"elective official"
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- 7adjective
not compulsory
"elective surgery"
"an elective course of study"
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