Synonyms for option
ˈɒp ʃənop·tion

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1. optionnoun

   Synonyms:
   possibility, alternative, choice

2. optionnoun

   One of the choices which can be made.

   The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.

   Synonyms:
   choice, alternative, possibility

3. optionnoun

   The freedom or right to choose.

   Synonyms:
   possibility, choice, alternative

4. optionnoun

   A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.

   Synonyms:
   alternative, choice, possibility

5. optionnoun

   A button on a screen used to select an action (often menu option)

   Synonyms:
   alternative, possibility, choice

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. option

   A choice may be among many things; an alternative is in the strictest sense a choice between two things; oftener it is one of two things between which a choice is to be made, and either of which is the alternative of the other; as, the alternative of surrender is death; or the two things between which there is a choice may be called the alternatives; both Mill and Gladstone are quoted as extending the meaning of alternative to include several particulars, Gladstone even speaking of "the fourth and last of these alternatives." Option is the right or privilege of choosing; choice may be either the right to choose, the act of choosing, or the thing chosen. A person of ability and readiness will commonly have many resources. Pick, from the Saxon, and election, from the Latin, picture the objects before one, with freedom and power to choose which he will; as, there were twelve horses, among which I could take my pick. A choice, pick, election, or preference is that which suits one best; an alternative is that to which one is restricted; a resource, that to which one is glad to betake oneself.

   Synonyms:
   alternative, choice, election, pick, preference, resource

   Antonyms:
   compulsion, necessity

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1. option

   Synonyms:
   discretion, choice, preference, deliberation, wish, election

   Antonyms:
   obligation, necessity, burden, compulsion

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. optionnoun

   the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited

   Synonyms:
   choice, selection, alternative, pick

2. option, alternative, choicenoun

   one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

   "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"

   Synonyms:
   choice, selection, alternative, pick

3. choice, selection, option, picknoun

   the act of choosing or selecting

   "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"

   Synonyms:
   selection, extract, cream, survival, filling, alternative, excerption, picking, choice, plectrum, woof, pick, plectron, excerpt, survival of the fittest, natural selection, weft, pickax, pickaxe

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1. choice

   Submitted by anonymous on September 14, 2020  

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1. optionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, election, preference

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1. optionnoun

   Synonyms:
   choice, preference, election, discretion, alternative

   Antonyms:
   constraint, coercion, compulsion

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1. List of paraphrases for "option":

   choice, variant, alternative, possibility, options, solution, opportunity, setting, choices, optional, faculty, election, chance, selection, alternatives

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1. Lindsay Davenport:

   I hope players now feel that (coming back to play after having children) is an option. For a long time it didn't feel like that was an option, they feel like they've got to quit by 29 to be able to have a family. Now it's wonderful for them to be able to look at (playing on following a maternity break) as a possibility.

2. Mark Esper:

   The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now.

3. Mike Burns:

   Part of the push to adopt the 26th amendment was the ongoing protest movements of Vietnam War. Before, protest movements were the only option [ for young people ], not actually being voters who could cast ballots about the very decisions that affect their lives.

4. Pilar Clark:

   'zoochosis' and premature death due to captivity, particularly in the case of highly intelligent predatory animals...can't be the only option.

5. Manuel Jose Sanchez:

   I am angry with Julen Lopetegui, I am angry with the president of Real Madrid, and I am angry with the president of the Spanish football association for the way they all handled this, the feeling is that they made us a laughing stock. There were lots of other ways out of this and they chose the worst option.