Synonyms:
alternate, alternative, substitute
Meaning: serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"
Synonyms:
alternative
Meaning: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
option, alternative, choice
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
"Now, what's the alternative?"
Then the alternative occurred to him.
Happily, this is not a necessary alternative.
"I have thought of an alternative, sir captain; but it depends upon your charity.
"The alternative is, that I have already set the dial to eternity, Dent," grinned Tode.
It was this last alternative, as being the safest of the three, which was adopted by Drake.
It appears to me far more suggestive than the alternative plan--Citizenship, Labour, and so forth.
The alternative was dreadful, as famine presented them on the one hand, and shipwreck on the other.
Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service.
He stopped, he could speak no more, he swept the alternative aside by a gesture, and they stood looking at one another.