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Definitions: Facultative |
FacultativeAdjective1. Of or relating to the mental faculties. 2. (biology) able to exist under more than one set of conditions; "a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte". 3. Granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment". 4. Not compulsory; "facultative courses in the sciences". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Facultative \Fac"ul*ta*tive\, adjective. [Latin expression facultas, -atis, faculty: compare to the French expression facultatif, German fakultativ.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Antonym: obligate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Life | Microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Facultative |
| Specialty definitions using "facultative": Actinobacillus ♦ Facultative Bacteria ♦ Halobacteriaceae ♦ Pasteurella ♦ Staphylococcus epidermidis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Facultative" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (permissive). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "facultative": facultative anaerobe ♦ facultative anaerobes ♦ facultative obligatory treaty ♦ facultative subject. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
facultative reinsurance | 6 |
facultative | 4 |
facultative inc resource | 3 |
anaerobes facultative | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "facultative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fakultativ (elective, optional, voluntary), jo sistematik. (various references) | |
Arabic | ملكي (imperial, kingly, king's, mine, monarchal, monarchist, of mine, possessive, proprietary, regal, royal, royalistic, sovereign), إختياري (elective, optional, permissive, volitional). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), факултативен (elective), незадължителен (dispensable, optional). (various references) | |
Chinese | 特许 (Chartered, Chartering, Privileged). (various references) | |
Czech | fakultativní (optional). (various references) | |
Danish | fakultativ obligatorisk kontrakt (facultative obligatory treaty). (various references) | |
Dutch | facultatief verplicht herverzekeringscontract (facultative obligatory treaty). (various references) | |
Finnish | fakultatiivisobligatorinen sopimus (facultative obligatory treaty), valinnaispakollinen sopimus (facultative obligatory treaty). (various references) | |
French | facultatif. (various references) | |
German | fakultativ (optional). (various references) | |
Greek | προαιρετική-υποχρεωτική αντασφαλιστική σύμβαση (facultative obligatory treaty). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שברשות (optional). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fakultatív (elective, optional). (various references) | |
Italian | facoltativo (any, optional, permissive). (various references) | |
Korean | 기능 (function, functional, functionality). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acultativefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | concreto (concrete, concrete oil). (various references) | |
Romanian | facultativ (dispensable, optional, optionally), privitor la facultãţi, întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, odd, random, transient). (various references) | |
Russian | необязательный (dispensable, escapable, optional). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fakultativan, neobavezan (dispensable, elective, optional, unbound, unbounded). (various references) | |
Spanish | facultativo (doctor, elective, lesson, medic, medical, optional, permissive, physician, practitioner). (various references) | |
Swedish | frivillig (freewill, optional, unsolicited, voluntary, volunteer, willing), fakultativ (optional, permissive), valfri (elective, optional). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorunlu olmayan, seçmeli (elective, optional, permissive, selective), isteğe bağlı (arbitrary, discretionary, incidental, optional, permissive, unprompted), ihtiyari (discretionary, optional, unprompted). (various references) | |
Ukranian | факультативний (elective, optional), властивий (appropriate, built in, congenial, immanent, incident, incidental, inherent, innate, native, proper, resident), випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "facultative": facultatively. (additional references) | |
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"Facultative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afcultative, facultatif, fcultative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "facultative" (pronounced fa"kultā'tiv) |
| 5 | -t ā' t i v | authoritative, imitative, meditative, qualitative, quantitative, rehabilitative. |
| 4 | -ā' t i v | accommodative, accumulative, administrative, appreciative, collaborative, cooperative, deliberative, dissipative, elucidative, innovative, investigative, iterative, legislative, manipulative, prognosticative, regulative, stimulative. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accusative, acquisitive, active, adaptive, addictive, additive, adjective, adoptive, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, irrespective, laxative, locomotive, lucrative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: cavaletti, cultivate. | |
-3 letters: activate, califate, cavitate. | |
-4 letters: actuate, cattail, cavetti, clavate, cuittle, factual, faculae, falcate, faucial, lactate, lattice, tactful, tactile, tactual, valuate, vatical, victual. | |
-5 letters: acetal, active, actual, acuate, aculei, aecial, atavic, atelic, aviate, cattie, cattle, caveat, cutlet, cuttle, eluvia, facial, facile, facula, faecal, faucal, faucet, favela, fecial, fecula, fetial, futile, luetic, tectal, vacate, valuta, vatful, vittae, vittle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-f-i-l-t-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: facultatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 63 75 6C 74 61 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -.-. ..- .-.. - .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100011 01110101 01101100 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a c u l t a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0063 0075 006C 0074 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067698778866786758871 |
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