alternative
Meaning of alternative
adjective
- (of one or more things) available as another possibility or choice.
the various alternative methods for resolving disputes
- relating to activities that depart from or challenge traditional norms.
an alternative lifestyle
- one of two or more available possibilities.
audiobooks are an interesting alternative to reading
she had no alternative but to break the law
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘alternating, alternate’): from French alternatif, -ive or medieval Latin alternativus, from Latin alternare ‘interchange’ (see alternate).
Information about alternative
Hyphenation of alternative
al-ter-na-tive
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- alternative is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
alternative synonyms
Meaning alternate:
Meaning option:
Meaning not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality:
Meaning denoting the second of a specified or implied group of two:
Meaning used to refer to an additional person or thing of the same type as one already mentioned or known about; one more; a further:
Meaning constituting number two in a sequence; coming after the first in time or order; 2nd:
Meaning able to be done or achieved:
Meaning a person or thing acting or serving in place of another:
Meaning the action or process of replacing someone or something:
Meaning a person who is appointed to undertake the duties of a superior in the superior's absence:
Meaning a feeling of reassurance and relaxation following release from anxiety or distress:
Meaning the authority to represent someone else, especially in voting:
Meaning relating to the birth of a child or children by means of surrogacy:
Meaning put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it:
Meaning readiness for duty or immediate deployment:
Meaning a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action:
Meaning retain for future use:
Meaning help or support:
Meaning providing supplementary or additional help and support:
Meaning an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency:
Meaning contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted; not orthodox:
Meaning not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed:
Meaning not habitually or commonly occurring or done:
Meaning out of the ordinary; unusual:
Meaning unaccustomed or unusual:
Meaning (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough:
Meaning involving or causing a complete or dramatic change:
Meaning relating to Nonconformists or their principles and practices:
Meaning failing or refusing to conform:
Meaning not even or balanced in shape or arrangement:
Meaning unconventional; unusual:
Meaning present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest:
Meaning different from a recent previous one:
Meaning a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism:
Meaning (of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved:
Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange:
Meaning attractive or striking because colourful or out of the ordinary:
Meaning relating to Bohemia or its people:
Meaning relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual:
Meaning deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying:
Meaning reaching a high or the highest degree; very great:
Meaning tending to be different or develop in different directions:
Meaning departing from an accepted standard:
Meaning deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected:
Meaning very strange or unusual:
Meaning looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar:
Meaning showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable:
Meaning strange; bizarre:
Meaning eccentric or strange:
Meaning amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic:
Meaning abnormal or irregular:
Meaning a course of action that is resorted to:
Translation of alternative
- French: alternative
- Portuguese: alternativa
- Spanish: alternativa, alternativo
- German: alternativ
- Italian: alternativo
Words that rhyme with alternative
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative, ampliative
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