unoptionalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unoptional (not comparable)

1. Not optional.

   Synonym: nonoptional

   • 1886, Annual Report of the Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Schools, page 41:

     Each and every one of the branches mentioned is presented for the pupil's study or exercise as an unoptional subject, essential to his proper training and development in his early school career.

   • 2011 October 27, Joachim L. Oberst, Heidegger on Language and Death: The Intrinsic Connection in Human Existence‎^[1], A&C Black, →ISBN:

     Within the reality of its factical certainty death is unoptional. Suicide and murder do not make death optional. Although we can bring about death prematurely by force or choice, we cannot choose to do the opposite; […]

   • 2012 January 12, Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

     The jungle remains several walls away. More important is what sort of garden this “Darwin meets Aristotle” one is. What sort of abominations are going to become unoptional?