Alternate Synonyms and Antonyms

ôltər-nāt, ăl-
Alternative
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alternative
  2. substitute
  3. makeshift
  4. other
Antonyms:
  1. necessary
Recurrent
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. alternating
  2. intermittent
  3. every-other
  4. every-second
  5. wavelike
One that takes the place of another
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. substitute
  2. replacement
  3. surrogate
  4. stand-in
  5. equivalent
  6. fill-in
  7. pinch hitter
  8. double
  9. sub
  10. shuttlecock
  11. superseder
  12. supplanter
  13. vice regent
Antonyms:
  1. necessity
To take or do by turns
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. interchange
  2. rotate
  3. take-turns
  4. substitute
  5. follow in turn
  6. follow successively
  7. happen by turns
  8. follow one another
  9. do by turns
  10. act reciprocally
  11. do one then the other
  12. act alternately
  13. relieve
  14. fill in for
  15. exchange
  16. reciprocate
  17. transpose
  18. change off
  19. spell
To fluctuate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fluctuate
  2. seesaw
  3. vary
  4. shift
  5. vacillate
  6. oscillate
  7. waver
  8. rise-and-fall
  9. blow-hot-and-cold
  10. change
  11. teeter
  12. else
  13. sway
  14. totter
  15. come-and-go
  16. jump
  17. interchange
  18. ebb-and-flow
  19. shuffle
  20. intermit
  21. go to and fro
  22. ride and tie
  23. tack
  24. back-and-fill
  25. rotate
  26. teeter-totter
  27. switch
  28. counterchange
  29. flip
  30. flip-flop
  31. logroll
Antonyms:
  1. continue
Be an understudy or alternate for a role
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. understudy
Of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. opposite

Words Related to Alternate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. temporary
  2. See syn. study at
  3. interleave
  4. alternation

Alternate Sentence Examples

  • If you come under attack, you'll need an alternate identity... something similar to witness protection.

  • She sat again in the uncomfortable chair that had become her alternate bed.

  • Their alternate hosts are mosquitoes of the Culex genus.

  • His early years were spent in alternate pleasure and military service.

  • Green crops, such as turnips, clover and rye grass, began to be alternated with grain crops, whence the name alternate husbandry.

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