option

Main Entry:
say-so [sey-soh]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: voice
Synonyms: approval, choice, decision, expression, option, part, participation, preference, representation, right of free speech, say*, suffrage, vent, view, vote, vox populi, will, wish
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Main Entry: addition
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
accessory, accrual, added, additional, additive, adjectitious, adscititious, anabatic, ascititious, ascriptitious, beblubbered, big, bigswoln, bloated, blowzy, bulbous, distended, dropsical, epactal, exaggerated, expanded, expansive, extra, fat, flabelliform, full-blown, full-formed, full-grown, gorbelly, gravid, hypertrophic, hypertrophied, increased, larger, obese, oedematous, on the increase, overgrown, patulous, phlogogenetic, pinguescent, planteric, pot-bellied, puffy, pulvinate, pursy, scaturient, subjunctive, sufflated, supervacaneous, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suppletory, sway-bellied, swelling, swollen, tumid, turgescent, turgid, undiminished, wide-open, widespread, évasé
Main Entry: choice
Part of Speech: adjective, noun
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Adjectives:
choice, choosing, chosen, conclusive, deligible, determinate, discoursive, discretional, discursive, disposed, doxastic, eclectic, half-minded, homodox, in the loop, judging, judicious, multivolent, optional, peremptory, perficiently, predisposed, preferential, snap, unbiased
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Main Entry: pleasure
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
pleasure, queme, raptured, rapturous, ravished, ravishing, refreshing, resigned, satisfactory, satisfied, saturnian, seducing, sensual, seraphic, serene, suant, suboptimal, sweet, sybaritic, taking, thrice happy, thrilling, to one's liking, to one's mind, to one's taste, tolerable, transported, unafflicted, unalloyed, unmolested, unplagued, unrepining, unvexed, voluptuous, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, wilcweme, winning, winsome, with a joyful face, with sparkling eyes, without alloy
Main Entry: refusal
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
deaf to, impossible, not to be thought of, not willing to hear of, out of the question, recusant, refusing, restiff, restive, uncomplying, unconsenting, ungranted
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Main Entry: volition
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
abulic, autocratic, discretional, discretionary, free, intended, minded, optional, original, prepense, spontaneous, unbidden, volitient, volitional, voluntary, wilful
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Addition.
Category: 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY
Synonyms:
-nouns
addition, annexation, adjection; junction; superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation; accession, reinforcement; increase; increment, supplement; accompaniment; interposition; insertion.
-verbs
add, annex, affix, superadd, subjoin, superpose; clap on, saddle on; tack to, append, tag; ingraft; saddle with; sprinkle; introduce (interpose); insert., become added, accrue; advene, supervene., reenforce, restrengthen; reinforce, swell the ranks of; augment.
-adjectives
added; additional; supplemental, supplementary; suppletory, subjunctive; adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious; additive, extra, accessory.
-adverbs
au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot, et cetera; and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis aliis, over and above, moreover., with, withal; including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let alone; together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with; conjointly; jointly.
-phrases
adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Antonyms: nonaddition
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Choice.
Category: 1. Acts of volition
Synonyms:
-nouns
choice, option; discretion (volition); preoption; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix; adoption, cooptation; novation; decision (judgment)., election, poll, ballot, vote, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote; plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; elective franchise; straight ticket [U.S.]., selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism; excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste, cut and paste; pick (best)., preference, prelation; predilection (desire).
-verbs
offers one's choice, set before; hold out the alternative, present the alternative, offer the alternative; put to the vote., use option, use discretion, exercise option, exercise discretion, one's option; adopt, take up, embrace, espouse; choose, elect; take one's choice, make one's choice; make choice of, fix upon., vote, poll, hold up one's hand; divide., settle; decide (adjudge); list (will); make up one's mind (resolve) [more]., select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one's fancy., set apart, mark out for; mark., prefer; have rather, have as lief; fancy (desire); be persuaded., take a decided step, take a decisive step; commit oneself to a course; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; cast in one's lot with; take for better or for worse.
-adjectives
optional; discretional (voluntary)., eclectic; choosing; preferential; chosen; choice (good).
-adverbs
optionally; at pleasure (will); either the one or the other; or at the option of; whether or not; once and for all; for one's money., by choice, by preference; in preference; rather, before.
Antonyms: absence of choice
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Concept: Pleasure.
Category: 1. Passive Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblection, delection; relish, zest; gusto (physical pleasure); satisfaction (content); complacency., well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease., joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness., treat, refreshment; amusement; luxury., mens sana in corpore sano [Juvenal]., happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitide, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium ( heaven) [more]; third heaven, seventh heaven; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism., honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, happy valley, Agapemone.
-verbs
be pleased; feel pleasure, experience pleasure; joy; enjoy oneself; be in clover, be in elysium [more]; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures., feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine., be pleased with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure from; take pleasure in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over (physical pleasure); enjoy, relish, like; love; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of., take in good part., treat oneself to, solace oneself with.
-adjectives
pleased; not sorry; glad, gladsome; pleased as Punch., happy, blest, blessed, blissful, beatified; happy as a clam at high water [U.S.], happy as a king, happy as the day is long; thrice happy, ter quaterque beatus; enjoying; joyful (in spirits); hedonic., in a blissful state, in paradise [more], in raptures, in ectstasies, in a transport of delight., comfortable (physical pleasure); at ease; content; sans souci.
-adverbs
happily; with pleasure (willingfully); with glee n..
-phrases
one's heart leaping with joy.
Antonyms: pain
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