Alternativeとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɒlˈtɜːnətɪv/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔlˌtɝnətɪv/ (citation needed)

形容詞

alternative (not comparable)

1. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities

   an alternative proposition

2. Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, alternative rock).
3. Other; different from something else.
4. alternate; reciprocal

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派生語

関連する語

• alternate
• alternativeness
• alternativism

名詞

alternative (複数形 alternatives)

1. A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. [from 17th c.]
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XI:

     ‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’

2. One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen. [from 17th c.]
3. The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted. [from 18th c.]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:option

参考

• variant

参照

• alternative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• alternative in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Latin

形容詞

alternātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of alternātīvus