[
US
/ˈaɪðɝ, ˈiðɝ/
]
[ UK /ˈaɪðɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˈaɪðɐ/ ]
ADVERB
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after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like `likewise' or `also'
if you don't order dessert I won't either
I don't know either
he isn't stupid, but he isn't exactly a genius either
How To Use either In A Sentence
- It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
- The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
- My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
- It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
- Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
- Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
- Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
- Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark