English to English
adjective
- Offering a choice of two things.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- serving or used in place of another
An alternative plan.
source: WordNet 3.0
- necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
Alternative possibilities were neutrality or war.
source: WordNet 3.0
- pertaining to unconventional choices
An alternative life style.
source: WordNet 3.0
