- optative - indicating an option or wish
- optative - relating to a mood of verbs in some languages; "optative verb endings"
- optative - relating to a mood of verbs in some languages; "optative verb endings"
- optative mood, optative - a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
--1 is a kind of mood, mode, modality