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alternative
Adjective
  • Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
  • Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, alternative rock).
  • Other.
  • alternate; reciprocal
Noun
  • A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. [from 17th c.]
  • One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen. [from 17th c.]
  • The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted. [from 18th c.]