Altered vs Alternative - What's the difference?
altered | alternative |
(alter)
A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine.
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
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XI:
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
As nouns the difference between altered and alternative
is that altered is a kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine while alternative is alternative.As a verb altered
is (alter).altered
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* * * * *alternative
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(wikipedia alternative)Adjective
(-)- an alternative proposition
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* alternative dispute resolution * alternative energy * alternative lifestyle * alternative medicine * alternative press * alternative voteNoun
(en noun)- ‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’