LekhoriLekhoriRelating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
an alternative proposition
Other; different from something else.
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
alternative medicine; alternative lifestyle; alternative rock
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
“The cloister or a betrothed husband?” I echoed—“Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?”
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it.
From Middle French alternatif, from Medieval Latin alternātīvus (“alternating”), from the participle stem of Latin alternō (“interchange, alternate”). Compare alternate.
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The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.