alternative
alternative is a 11-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Offering a choice of two things. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Offering a choice of two things.
- adjective. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
- adjective. Alternate; reciprocal.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
- noun. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
- noun. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
"what option did I have?"
"there no other alternative"
- adjective. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
"alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"
- adjective. pertaining to unconventional choices
"an alternative life style"
- adjective. serving or used in place of another
"an alternative plan"
Synonyms
choice, option, alternate, substitute
Common word forms
alternatives, alternatively, alternativeness
Words from these letters
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