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Definitions for: Alternative
[n] an alternative action; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
[adj] necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"
[adj] pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
[adj] allowing a choice; "an alternative plan"
Webster (1913) Definition: Al*ter"na*tive, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.]
1. Offering a choice of two things.
2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland.
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.
There is something else than the mere alternative of
absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
--Burke.
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.
Having to choose between two alternatives, safety
and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of
another.
If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
--Lewis.
With no alternative but death. --Longfellow.
4. A choice between more than two things; one of several
things offered to choose among.
My decided preference is for the fourth and last of
these alternatives. --Gladstone.
Synonyms: alternate, choice, disjunctive, mutually exclusive, option, secondary, unconventional
See Also: deciding, decision making, default, default option, druthers, Hobson's choice, impossibility, impossible action, obverse, opening, possibility, possible action, preference, soft option
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