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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: alternative
alternatif, cadangan, pilihan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: alternative
alternative
n : 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” [syn:
option,
choice]
alternative
adj 1: allowing a choice;
“an alternative plan” [syn:
alternate]
2: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive
possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or
that'" [syn:
mutually exclusive]
3: pertaining to unconventional choices;
“an alternative life
style”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Alternative
Alternative
\Al*ter"na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.]
1. Offering a choice of two things.
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2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
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3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Alternative
\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.
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There is something else than the mere alternative of
absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
--Burke.
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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.
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Having to choose between two alternatives, safety
and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).
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3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of
another.
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If this demand is refused the alternative is war.
--Lewis.
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With no alternative but death. --Longfellow.
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4. A choice between more than two things; one of several
things offered to choose among.
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My decided preference is for the fourth and last of
these alternatives. --Gladstone.
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