alternative

alternative has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• a.. Offering a choice of two things.
• a.. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
• a.. Alternate; reciprocal.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
• n.. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
• n.. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
• a.. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"
• a.. pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
• a.. serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"