EGAVE

alternatively

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 7.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adverb In an alternative way.
  2. adverb Used to link a pair of opposing possibilities.

Similar words

instead as an alternative or else otherwise secondarily else secondly meanwhile furthermore moreover

Often followed by

the a be it to as they spliced by

Word family

alternative alternatives

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