alternative

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.

   “an alternative proposition”

2. sıfat Presenting two or more alternatives.

   “alternative conjunctions like or”

3. sıfat Other; different from something else.

   “Exploring alternative realities isn't just a game for boys. In 1666, Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, published a utopian fantasy of compelling strangeness.”

4. sıfat Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.

   “alternative medicine; alternative lifestyle; alternative rock”

5. sıfat Alternate, reciprocal.

   “He [the Sun] it is that giveth light to all things, and riddeth them from darkneſſe : hee hideth the other ſtarres, and ſheweth them againe : he ordereth the ſeaſons in their alternative courſe : he tempereth the yeere, ariſing ever freſh and new againe, for the benefite and good of the world.”

6. isim A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.

   “I gave you the alternative; you decided to stay.”

7. isim 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.”

8. isim The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
9. isim alternative rock
10. isim A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.

    “Disability activists discourage the use of the words "crazy" and "insane" due to their negative connections to mental health, suggesting alternatives such as "wild", "silly", or "out of this world", which do not relate to mental health.”