ALTERNATIVE meaning: Different option from conventional choice

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word alternative:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

alternative: Merriam-Webster.com
alternative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
alternative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
alternative: Collins English Dictionary
alternative: Vocabulary.com
Alternative, alternative: Wordnik
alternative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
alternative: Wiktionary
alternative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
alternative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
alternative: Infoplease Dictionary
Alternative, alternative: Dictionary.com
alternative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
AlterNative, Alternative (Mauritania), Alternative (album), Alternative (disambiguation), Alternative, The Alternative (Denmark), The Alternative (France), The Alternative (Kosovo), The Alternative (Palestine), The Alternative (album), The Alternative (political party): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Alternative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
alternative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
alternative: Rhymezone
Alternative (f), alternative, alternative (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
alternative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
alternative: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
alternative: Free Dictionary
alternative: Mnemonic Dictionary
alternative: Dictionary/thesaurus
alternative: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Alternative (disambiguation), alternative: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Alternative: Cybernetics and Systems
alternative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Alternative (disambiguation), alternative: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.
▸ adjective:  Other; different from something else.
▸ adjective:  Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Alternate, reciprocal.
▸ noun:  A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
▸ noun:  One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
▸ noun:  The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, music) alternative rock
▸ noun:  A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.

Opposite:

uniform, standard, conventional, identical, mainstream

Types:

energy: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, wave, more...

Phrases:

alternative hypothesis, alternative medicine, alternative energy, alternative hypotheses, alternative theories, more...

Adjectives:

only, second, viable, third, best, latter, attractive, possible, acceptable, real, effective

Colors:

indigo, teal, magenta, chartreuse, cyan, more...

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