Usually means: Offering another option or possibility.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word alternatively:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternatively: Merriam-Webster
  2. alternatively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alternatively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. alternatively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Alternatively, alternatively: Wordnik
  6. alternatively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. alternatively: Wiktionary
  8. Alternatively, alternatively: Dictionary.com
  9. alternatively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Alternatively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. alternatively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. alternatively: Rhymezone
  13. Alternatively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. alternatively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. alternatively: FreeDictionary.org
  16. alternatively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. alternatively: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. alternatively: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternatively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. alternatively: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alternatively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. alternatively: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  in an alternative way
▸ adverb:  (conjunctive) Used to link a pair of opposing possibilities.

Similar:
instead, as an alternative, or else, otherways, otherwise, otherhow, subalternately, to put it another way, one way or the other, one way or other, more...

Opposite:
conversely, similarly, likewise, equally, identically

Types:
rock, folk, jazz, classical, blues, country, rap, hip-hop, techno, trance, more...

Colors:
    teal,     coral,     olive,     lavender,     maroon, more...

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Similar:
instead, as an alternative, or else, otherways, otherwise, otherhow, subalternately, to put it another way, one way or the other, one way or other, more...

Opposite:
conversely, similarly, likewise, equally, identically

Types:
rock, folk, jazz, classical, blues, country, rap, hip-hop, techno, trance, more...

Colors:
    teal,     coral,     olive,     lavender,     maroon, more...



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