Crossword-Solution: ALTERNATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alternative | a. | Offering a choice of two things. |
| Alternative | a. | Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. |
| Alternative | a. | Alternate; reciprocal. |
| Alternative | n. | An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. |
| Alternative | n. | Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. |
| Alternative | n. | The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. |
| Alternative | n. | A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALTERNATIVE (5)
There is no other alternative; for continuing the government is acquiescence on one side or the other.
The alternative is dreadful, but take Bathsheba; I give her up! She must love you indeed to sell soul and body to you so utterly as she has done.
His position is then one of the most singularly irksome, and, in every contingency, disagreeable, that a wretched mortal can possibly occupy; with seldom an alternative of good on either hand, although what presents itself to him as the worst event may very probably be the best.
Also available are a number of "alternative" hierarchies: alt True anarchy; anything and everything can and does appear; subjects include sex, the Simpsons, and privacy.
The peak of silliness came with a letter to an alternative paper in New Haven, Connecticut, laying out the factoids of this Big Brotherly affair.
Quotes with ALTERNATIVE (3)
Do you think you wear a mask?’‘I’m wearing one right now.’ Valentino smiled softly. ‘We both are.’‘It’s a sad thought.’‘Yes,’ he said. ‘But sometimes I wonder about the alternative. Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?
I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.
Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1974–2025).