Synonyms for option
ˈɒp ʃən

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. option(noun)

   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, choice(noun)

   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, pick(noun)

   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

Wiktionary(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. option(noun)

   Synonyms:
   choice, possibility, alternative

2. option(noun)

   To purchase an option on something.

   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. option(noun)

   The freedom or right to choose.

   Synonyms:
   possibility, choice, alternative

4. option(noun)

   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. option(noun)

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

   Synonyms:
   alternative, possibility, choice

English Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(1.80 / 5 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. option

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

   Antonyms:
   obligation, necessity, burden, compulsion

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. option(n.)

   Synonyms:
   choice, election, preference

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. option(n)

   Synonyms:
   choice, preference, election, discretion, alternative

   Antonyms:
   constraint, coercion, compulsion

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

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

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How to use option in a sentence?

1. Debora Mariano:

   As a Catholic, I'm against abortion, but ideally the Church would allow more options for women who want to prevent getting pregnant in the first place, it feels like we have little protection against Zika, that government efforts to stop it are not working, so those of us too scared to get pregnant with this illness out there have no other option but to go against the Church.

2. Ken Coates:

   The greatest hope the government can have is they neutralize this topic. Imagine if a multinational gets ownership of the pipeline, or an indigenous consortium. The indigenous (option) is way less provocative.

3. Prince Harry:

   The decision that I have made for my wife and I to step back is not one I made lightly, it was so many months of talks after so many years of challenges. And I know I havent always gotten it right, but as far as this goes, there really was no other option.

4. Anuj Somany:

   It does not surprise so much by seeing the option being given via online poll to the population for selection between 'Rotten Apple' and 'Ripen Banana' in the ensuing competition, as much by looking at them showing their finger mark proudly after excitedly casting their vote in favour of one of them.

5. Nicola Thorp:

   Dress code laws should be changed so that women have the option to wear flat, formal shoes at work if they wish, current formal work dress codes are outdated and exist.

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