Facultative

Quick meaning: Facultative is an adjective meaning Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.

Meaning

Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.

More Meanings

1. Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
2. That grants permission or power to do something.
3. (biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
4. (geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.

Example Sentences

facultative feeder

But does the penny fare end here, said Mr. Nixon, at a merely facultative stop? Surely it ends rather at the station.

The policy would be a “facultative” policy, whereby the insurers would first have assessed the risk involved in the particular shipment and decided to accept it.

For then it is seen, as before, that it is the points outside the two sheets which are facultative, and not the points between the surface and the touching plane.

Synonyms for facultative

Depending on context, synonyms include discretionary, elective, free, noncompulsory, nonmandatory, nonobligatory.

Antonyms for facultative

Common opposites include basic, essential, indispensable, necessar, necessary, needed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include optional, enabling, optionally, elective, voluntary, discretionary.

Related Dictionary Tools