Alternative
WordNet
adjective
(1) Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
"`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"
(2) Pertaining to unconventional choices
"An alternative life style"
(3) Allowing a choice
"An alternative plan"
noun
(4) 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"
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Etymology
< < , pp. ; see alternate.
Noun
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities.
- A choice between two or more mutually exclusive possibilities.
- One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.