1. Indicating an option or wish 
2. Relating to a mood of verbs in some languages
   "optative verb endings"

1. A mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
   - optative mood

Derived forms: optatives

See also: opt, option

Type of: modality, mode, mood

Encyclopedia: Optative

• unascertainable
• unascribable
• unashamed
• unashamedly
• unasked
• unaspiring
• unassailable
• unassailably
• unassertive
• unassertively
• unassertiveness
• unassignable
• unassigned
• unassisted
• unassuming
• unassumingly
• unassumingness
• unassured
• unasterisked
• unattached
• unattackable
• unattainable
• unattainableness
• unattainably
• unattended