VOLUNTARY Synonyms

• possible but not necessary; left to personal choice

• happening or arising without apparent external cause

• said or done without having been planned or written in advance

• not paid

• without payment

• engaged in as a pastime

• subject to popular election

• a course that the student can select from among alternatives

• optional

• done of your own accord

• free from external control and constraint

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• not controlled by a party or interest group

• voluntarily assumed or endured

• produced by electrical self-induction

• brought about by yourself

• not brought about by coercion or force

• not resulting from undue effort; not forced

• proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus

• disposed or inclined toward

• the act of making a choice

• not brought about by coercion or force

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• existing as an independent entity

• (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

• given as an honor without the normal duties

• done or made or performed with purpose and intent

• characterized by conscious design or purpose

• not paying a salary

• with deliberate intention

• (military) a person who freely enlists for service

• a native or resident of Tennessee

• a person who performs voluntary work

• without payment

• tell voluntarily

• agree freely

• do volunteer work

• done by design

• habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition