Dictionary Entry
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.
11 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Offering a choice of two things.
- 2adjective
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
- 3adjective
Alternate; reciprocal.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
- 7noun
A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
- 8noun
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
"what option did I have?"
"there no other alternative"
- 9adjective
necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
"alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"
- 10adjective
pertaining to unconventional choices
"an alternative life style"
- 11adjective
serving or used in place of another
"an alternative plan"
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