Sekirov Dictionary

elective

/ɪˈlɛktɪv/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

•
Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
- After accounting for all of my required courses, there is hardly any room in my schedule for any elective ones.
•
Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
- It was very confusing hearing my cancer surgery being classified as "elective surgery". Am I "electing" to live rather than die?
•
Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
- For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate: — 1697

noun1

•
Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
- I still need to decide which electives to take along with my compulsory courses next semester.

forms

electives · more elective · most elective

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