Otherwise vs Indeed - What's the difference?
otherwise | indeed |
(lb) Differently, in another way.
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*2011 , Phil McNulty,
*:Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise .
(lb) In different circumstances; or else.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
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, title= (lb) In all other respects.
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*2013 , Phil McNulty,
*:Robin van Persie squandered United's best chance late on but otherwise it was a relatively comfortable afternoon for Liverpool's new goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who has yet to concede a Premier League goal since his £9m summer move from Sunderland.
Other than supposed; different.
(lb) Truly; in fact; actually.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed , a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed , did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed , allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= In fact.
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As adverbs the difference between otherwise and indeed
is that otherwise is differently, in another way while indeed is truly; in fact; actually.As an adjective otherwise
is other than supposed; different.As an interjection indeed is
indicates emphatic agreement.otherwise
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Alternative forms
* otherwizeAdverb
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Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered,
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Usage notes
* "Otherwise" is often used to refer to the negative of something. The something may be a noun phrase, a verb phrase, an adjective phrase, or an adverb phrase, or a clause, or even something larger.Synonyms
* (differently) contrarily, contrastingly * (in different circumstances) if not, else (See or else) * (in all other respects) apart from thatAntonyms
* likewiseAdjective
(-)- He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise .
indeed
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Alternative forms
* endeed (obsolete)Adverb
(-)citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed , contain bacteria,
Synonyms
* (actually) certainly, definitely, in fact, indubitably, really, surely, truly, undoubtedlySynonyms
* absolutely * indubitably * okay * sure thingStatistics
*External links
*indeed] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary