'alternative' definitions:
Definition of 'alternative'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan" [syn: alternate, alternative, substitute]
adjective
Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war"
adjective
Pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
noun
Synonyms of 'alternative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- additional,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternate choice,
- analogy,
- another,
- attainable,
- backup,
- change,
- changeling,
- choice,
- comparison,
- contingency,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- different,
- discretion,
- discretional,
- disjunctive,
- double,
- druthers,
- dummy,
- election,
- elective,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- exchange,
- exchangeable,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- interchangeable,
- locum tenens,
- loophole,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mock,
- next best thing,
- option,
- optional,
- optionality,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pleasure,
- possibility,
- possible choice,
- preference,
- pretext,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- replacing,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- saving clause,
- second string,
- secondary,
- selection,
- sign,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- stopgap,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility,
- utility player,
- variant,
- vicar,
- vicarious,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- volitional,
- voluntary,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- will and pleasure
Words containing 'alternative'
- alternate,
- alternately,
- alternating,
- alternation,
- alternatively,
- alternator,
- alternic,
- Altern base,
- Alternate generation,
- alternating current,
- alternation of generations,
- alternative birth,
- alternative birthing,
- alternative energy,
- alternative medicine,
- alternative pleading,
- pleading in the alternative,
- alternating electric current