Dictionary Entry
other
other is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as conjunction, pronoun & adjective, adverb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1conjunction
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
- 2pronoun & adjective
Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
- 3pronoun & adjective
Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
- 4pronoun & adjective
Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
- 5pronoun & adjective
Left, as opposed to right.
- 6adverb
Otherwise.
- 7adjective
very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected- Lance Morrow
"a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"
- 8adjective
belonging to the distant past
"the early inhabitants of Europe"
"former generations"
- 9adjective
recently past
"the other evening"
- 10adjective
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied- the White Queen
"today isn't any other day"
"the construction of highways and other public works"
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