Optional vs Voluntary - What's the difference?
optional | voluntary | Synonyms |
Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
* N. W. Taylor
* Alexander Pope
Done by design or intention; intentional.
Working or done without payment.
Endowed with the power of willing.
* Hooker
Of or relating to voluntaryism.
(obsolete) Voluntarily.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
*:And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].
(music) A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument
A volunteer
Voluntary is a synonym of optional.
As adjectives the difference between optional and voluntary
is that optional is not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective while voluntary is done, given, or acting of one's own free will.As an adverb voluntary is
voluntarily.As a noun voluntary is
a short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.optional
English
Adjective
(-)- On that beach clothing is entirely optional .
Antonyms
* obligatory * mandatory * compulsoryvoluntary
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
- She fell to lust a voluntary prey.
- If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
- God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary , agent, intending beforehand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
- a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church