different between required vs optional
required
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???kwa??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???kwa??d/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)d
- Hyphenation: re?quired
Verb
required
- simple past tense and past participle of require
Adjective
required (comparative more required, superlative most required)
- Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.
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optional
English
Etymology
option +? -al
Adjective
optional (not comparable)
- Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
- Synonyms: facultative; see also Thesaurus:optional
- Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory; see also Thesaurus:compulsory
Antonyms
- non-optional, nonoptional
Related terms
- option
- optionality
- optionally
Translations
Noun
optional (plural optionals)
- Something that is not compulsory, especially part of an academic course.
- (programming, sometimes capitalized) In various programming languages, a kind of variable that is assigned a specific data type but may or may not hold an actual value.
- 2015, Richard M Reese, Learning Java Functional Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 147:
- In functional languages, there is a data type called the option type, also called the maybe type. Its purpose is to encapsulate a value, which is returned from a function. […] In Java 8, the Optional class has been added to serve as an option type.
- 2015, Richard M Reese, Learning Java Functional Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 147:
Anagrams
- Politano
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pts??o?na?l/
- Hyphenation: op?ti?o?nal
Adjective
optional (not comparable)
- optional
Declension
Further reading
- “optional” in Duden online
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English optional.
Noun
optional m (invariable)
- optional accessory
- handicap (horse racing)
Anagrams
- pilotano
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