[
US
/ɔɫˈtɝnətɪvɫi/
]
[ UK /ɔːltˈɜːnətˌɪvli/ ]
[ UK /ɔːltˈɜːnətˌɪvli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in place of, or as an alternative to
Felix became a herpetologist instead
alternatively we could buy a used car
How To Use alternatively In A Sentence
- Alternatively, anyone can take part in the coffee morning and hold their own event.
- Alternatively, you could use a three pin plug with a built-in thermostat, available from electrical retailers.
- Alternatively, instead of decomposing the silane, you can liquefy it by refrigerating it down to -112°C. The Case for Mars
- Alternatively, the page was divided into two columns for recording debits and credits.
- Alternatively, the faculty might have contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis or varicella, and could infect patients.
- Alternatively, you've stuck with increasingly burdensome friendships or relationships. Times, Sunday Times
- Further and / or alternatively, the republication was a natural and probable consequence of the original publication by the Defendants. Politics101malaysia
- Alternatively, the soot might have come from the vaporization of oil deposits at the site of the meteorite impact.
- Alternatively, you could fill the basket with his favourite foods or toiletries.
- Only a few families and genera are known; this appears to have been a small group, or alternatively to have frequented areas where they would not have easily fossilized.