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Definition: Discretional |
DiscretionalAdjective1. Having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment; "The commission has discretionary power to award extra funds". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DiscretionalSynonym: discretionary (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Choice | Adjective: optional; discretional; (voluntary). |
Will | Adjective: voluntary, volitional, willful; free; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Discretional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Discretional" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "discretional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | discrecional (discretionary, optional). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Discretional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: discreational, Discreptione, discretionaly, discretione, discrezione. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: directional, disrelation. | |
-2 letters: clitorides, clostridia, decisional, directions, discretion, editorials, idolatries, indicators, lidocaines, nodalities, redactions, relictions. | |
-3 letters: acridines, acroleins, actinides, actinoids, andesitic, anoretics, catenoids, censorial, centroids, cilantros, cisternal, clarinets, clarioned, clarities, coastline, colanders, conelrads, contrails, creations, dacoities, deistical, delations, diastolic, dicentras, dictional, dilations, direction, disentail, dislocate, disorient, doctrinal, doctrines, doleritic, editorial, elicitors, eristical, estradiol. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: coresidential. | |
+2 letters: reduplications, valedictorians. | |
+3 letters: dechlorinations, decolorizations, desacralization, dictatorialness, inconsiderately, reconsolidating. | |
+4 letters: desacralizations, directionalities, resolidification. | |
+5 letters: chorioallantoides, decentralizations, denuclearizations, dictatorialnesses, resolidifications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 63 72 65 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s c r e t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0063 0072 0065 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585698471867581806778 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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