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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
alternative
adj 1: serving or used in place of another; "an alternative
plan" [syn: alternate, alternative, substitute]
2: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive
possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or
war"
3: pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life
style"
n 1: 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" [syn: option,
alternative, choice]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Alternative \Al*ter"na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.]
1. Offering a choice of two things.
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2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
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3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Alternative \Al*ter"na*tive\, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL.
alternativa.]
1. 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.
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There is something else than the mere alternative of
absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
--Burke.
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2. 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.
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Having to choose between two alternatives, safety
and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
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3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of
another.
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If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
--Lewis.
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With no alternative but death. --Longfellow.
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4. A choice between more than two things; one of several
things offered to choose among.
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My decided preference is for the fourth and last of
these alternatives. --Gladstone.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) |
ALTERNATIVE. The one or the other of two things. In contracts a party has
frequently the choice to perform one of several things, as, if he is bound
to pay one hundred dollars, or to deliver a horse, he has the alternative.
Vide Election; Obligation; Alternative.
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Thesaurus Results for Alternative:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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