voluntary

1. 1

   Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.

   • September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
2. 2

   Done by design or intention; intentional.

   • If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
3. 3

   Working or done without payment.

   • Wikimedia is a voluntary service.
4. 4

   Endowed with the power of willing.

   • […] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
5. 5

   Of or relating to voluntarism.

   • a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church

syn. discretionary · optional · volitional · willful · intentional

ant. antonym(s) of · compulsory · obligatory · accidental · paid · salaried

1. 1

   Voluntarily.obsolete

   • And all that els was pretious and deare, / The sea unto him voluntary brings [...].

1. 1

   A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.

2. 2

   A volunteer.

3. 3

   A supporter of voluntarism; a voluntarist.