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Alternative Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Alternative? [n] an alternative action; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse" [adj] necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'" [adj] pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style" [adj] allowing a choice; "an alternative plan" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Alternative: alternate \| choice \| disjunctive \| mutually exclusive \| option \| secondary \| unconventional Related Terms \| Find terms related to Alternative: additional \| agent \| alternate \| alternate choice \| analogy \| another \| attainable \| backup \| change \| changeling \| choice \| comparison \| contingency \| copy \| counterfeit \| deputy \| different \| discretion \| discretional \| disjunctive \| double \| druthers \| dummy \| election \| elective \| equal \| equivalent \| ersatz \| escape clause \| escape hatch \| exchange \| exchangeable \| fake \| fill-in \| ghost \| ghostwriter \| imitation \| interchangeable \| locum tenens \| loophole \| makeshift \| metaphor \| metonymy \| mock \| next best thing \| option \| optional \| optionality \| personnel \| phony \| pinch \| pinch hitter \| pleasure \| possibility \| possible choice \| preference \| pretext \| provisional \| proxy \| relief \| replacement \| replacing \| representative \| reserve \| reserves \| ringer \| saving clause \| second string \| secondary \| selection \| sign \| spare \| spares \| stand-in \| stopgap \| sub \| substituent \| substitute \| substitution \| succedaneum \| superseder \| supplanter \| surrogate \| symbol \| synecdoche \| temporary \| tentative \| third string \| token \| understudy \| utility \| utility player \| variant \| vicar \| vicarious \| vice-president \| vice-regent \| volitional \| voluntary \| way of escape \| way out \| will and pleasure See Also \| deciding \| decision making \| default \| default option \| druthers \| Hobson's choice \| impossibility \| impossible action \| obverse \| opening \| possibility \| possible action \| preference \| soft option Alternative In Webster's Dictionary \Alter"native\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.] 1. Offering a choice of two things. 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland. \Alter"native\, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL. alternativa.] 1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. --Burke. 2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called {alternatives}. Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett (Thucyd.). 3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. --Lewis. With no alternative but death. --Longfellow. 4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives. --Gladstone.

Alternative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Alternative?

[n] an alternative action; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
[adj] necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"
[adj] pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
[adj] allowing a choice; "an alternative plan"

Alternative In Webster's Dictionary

\Al*ter"na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.]
1. Offering a choice of two things.

2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland.


\Al*ter"na*tive\, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL.
alternativa.]
1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but
   not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is
   taken, the other must be left.

         There is something else than the mere alternative of
         absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
                                               --Burke.

2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one's
   choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only,
   the two things are called {alternatives}.

         Having to choose between two alternatives, safety
         and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett
                                               (Thucyd.).

3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of
   another.

         If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
                                               --Lewis.

         With no alternative but death.        --Longfellow.

4. A choice between more than two things; one of several
   things offered to choose among.

         My decided preference is for the fourth and last of
         these alternatives.                   --Gladstone.

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