Expendable
Expendable adjective - Suitable to be expended.
Optional and expendable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Optional" instead an adjective "Expendable".
Optional
Optional adjective - Subject to one's freedom of choice.
Expendable and optional are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expendable" instead an adjective "Optional".
Nearby Words: option, optionally
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- unimportant and expendable
- unimportant and optional
- unessential and expendable
- unessential and optional
- nonessential and expendable
- nonessential and optional
- spare and expendable
- spare and optional
- useless and expendable
- useless and optional
- dispensable and expendable
- dispensable and optional
- unnecessary and expendable
- unnecessary and optional
Both words in one sentence
- On similar lines, the final mission of the protoss optional campaign in Starcraft II gives the player five heroes, which are completely expendable.
Source: <Hero> Must Survive - The other characters are optional and often expendable and may be controlled by the computer.
Source: Co-Op Multiplayer
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