Canadian English Meaning of alternative
alternative
Other Canadian English words related to alternative
Nearest Words of alternative
- alternation of generations => Alternation of generations
- alternation => alternation
- alternating electric current => Alternating current
- alternating current => alternating current
- alternating => alternating
- alternateness => Alternateness
- alternately => alternately
- alternated => alternating
- alternate => alternate
- alternat => alternative.
- alternative birth => Alternative birth
- alternative birthing => birthing alternative
- alternative energy => Alternative energy
- alternative medicine => alternative medicine
- alternative pleading => Alternative pleading
- alternatively => alternatively
- alternativeness => Alternativeness
- alternator => alternator
- alternity => alternation
- althaea => marsh-mallow
Definitions and Meaning of alternative in English
alternative (n)
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
alternative (s)
serving or used in place of another
necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
pertaining to unconventional choices
alternative (a.)
Offering a choice of two things.
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
Alternate; reciprocal.
alternative (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.
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.
The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
FAQs About the word alternative
alternative
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen, serving or used in place of another, necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilitie
choice,option,Discretion,election,liberty,pick,preference,selection,way,Determination
coercion,duress,duty,force,obligation,Hobson's choice
alternation of generations => Alternation of generations, alternation => alternation, alternating electric current => Alternating current, alternating current => alternating current, alternating => alternating,
