Found 3 items, similar to alternative.
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. [1913 Webster] 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. [1913 Webster] 3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett (Thucyd.). [1913 Webster] 3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. [1913 Webster] If this demand is refused the alternative is war. --Lewis. [1913 Webster] With no alternative but death. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. [1913 Webster] My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives. --Gladstone. [1913 Webster]