Alternatively Synonyms, Alternatively Antonyms

alternative 1580s, "offering one or the other of two," from M.L. alternativus, from L. alternatus, pp. of alternare (see alternate). Sense of "the other of two which may be chosen" is recorded from 1838. Adj. use, "purporting to be a superior choice to what is in general use" was current by 1970 (earliest ref. is to the media); e.g. alternative energy (1975).

Example Sentences for alternatively

Alternatively, the draw SDRs and convert them to the aforementioned "hard" currencies.

The piers of the Nave are alternatively circular and octagonal.

Alternatively, we should have to pronounce this whole surplus unsaleable.

Alternatively the gods lift the earth out of the primeval waters.