| alternative | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. alternative, choice, option | 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" |
| ~ deciding, decision making | the cognitive process of reaching a decision.; "a good executive must be good at decision making" |
| ~ obverse | the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides.; "the obverse of this issue" |
| ~ druthers, preference | the right or chance to choose.; "given my druthers, I'd eat cake" |
| ~ default option, default | an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified. |
| ~ possible action, possibility, opening | a possible alternative.; "bankruptcy is always a possibility" |
| ~ impossible action, impossibility | an alternative that is not available. |
| ~ hobson's choice | the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all. |
| ~ soft option | an easier alternative.; "the instructor took the soft option and gave the boy a passing grade" |
| adj. | 2. alternate, alternative, substitute | serving or used in place of another.; "an alternative plan" |
| ~ secondary | being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" |
| adj. | 3. alternative | necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities.; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war" |
| ~ disjunctive | serving or tending to divide or separate. |
| adj. | 4. alternative | pertaining to unconventional choices.; "an alternative life style" |
| ~ unconventional | not conventional or conformist.; "unconventional life styles" |
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