Facultative

//ˈfæ.kəl.tə.tɪv//

Synonyms for "facultative" (17 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (5)

Related words (8)

Related word relations

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Translations

34 translations across 17 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • կամընտրական adj (not obligate; optional)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • неабавязко́вы adj (not obligate; optional)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • незадължителен adj (not obligate; optional)
  • факултативен adj (not obligate; optional)

Dutch

1 entries
  • facultatief adj (not obligate; optional)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • fakultativa adj (not obligate; optional)

Finnish

4 entries
  • fakultatiivinen adj (able to perform a particular life function)
  • kyky adj (of or relating to faculty)
  • kyvykkyys adj (of or relating to faculty)
  • myöntävä adj (granting permission)

French

1 entries
  • facultatif adj (not obligate; optional)

German

4 entries
  • fakultativ adj (not obligate; optional)
  • freigestellt adj (granting permission)
  • fähig adj (of or relating to faculty)
  • optional adj (not obligate; optional)

Ido

1 entries
  • fakultativa adj (not obligate; optional)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • fakultatif adj (not obligate; optional)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • факультативтік adj (not obligate; optional)

Polish

1 entries
  • fakultatywny adj (not obligate; optional)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • facultativo adj (not obligate; optional)

Russian

2 entries
  • необяза́тельный adj (not obligate; optional)
  • факультати́вный adj (not obligate; optional)

Spanish

1 entries
  • facultativo adj (not obligate; optional)

Turkish

4 entries
  • ihtiyarî adj (not obligate; optional)
  • istemli adj (not obligate; optional)
  • istemli adj (granting permission)
  • isteğe bağlı adj (granting permission)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • необов'язко́вий adj (not obligate; optional)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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

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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.

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facultative feeder

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This hypothesis might be supported by the evidence that there are varieties of pathogenic fungi of which parasitism is in varying degrees, between obligate parasitic and facultative parasitic. The facultative parasite, which usually lives as a saprophyte but under some conditions can parasitize on a plant, seems to be a pathogen with the lowest parasitic adaptation.

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