All option synonyms
op·tion
O o noun option
- choice — If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- possibility — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
- opportunity — an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
- route — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- preference — the act of preferring.
- alternative — If one thing is an alternative to another, the first can be found, used, or done instead of the second.
- benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
- privilege — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- advantage — An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
- claim — If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth.
- dibs — If someone has dibs on something, or if they have first dibs on it, they have the right to have it before anyone else.
- dilemma — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
- druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
- election — A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
- franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- grant — to bestow or confer, especially by a formal act: to grant a charter.
- licence — license.
- license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- pickup — an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- flipside — (music) The B-side of a phonograph record.
- free will — free and independent choice; voluntary decision: You took on the responsibility of your own free will.
- take it or leave it — If you say to someone 'take it or leave it', you are telling them that they can accept something or not accept it, but that you are not prepared to discuss any other alternatives.
adjective option
- additional — Additional things are extra things apart from the ones already present.
- spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- in reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- over and above — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- in store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- on the side — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.