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English adjective: alternative | |||
| 1. | alternative serving or used in place of another | ||
| Samples | An alternative plan. | ||
| Synonyms | alternate, substitute | ||
| Similar | secondary | ||
| Antonyms | primary | ||
| 2. | alternative necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | ||
| Samples | Alternative possibilities were neutrality or war. | ||
| Similar | disjunctive | ||
| Antonyms | conjunctive | ||
| 3. | alternative pertaining to unconventional choices | ||
| Samples | An alternative life style. | ||
| Similar | unconventional | ||
| Antonyms | conventional, conventional | ||
English noun: alternative | |||
| 1. | alternative (cognition) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | ||
| Samples | What option did I have?. There no other alternative. My only choice is to refuse. | ||
| Synonyms | choice, option | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deciding, decision making | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | default, default option, druthers, Hobson's choice, impossibility, impossible action, obverse, opening, possibility, possible action, preference, soft option | ||
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