Alternates Synonyms and Antonyms

Someone who takes the place of another person
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. surrogates
  2. substitutes
  3. doubles
  4. subs
  5. replacements
  6. equivalents
  7. stand-ins
Antonyms:
  1. necessities
To fluctuate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shuffles
  2. totters
  3. sways
  4. shifts
  5. teeters
  6. seesaws
  7. wavers
  8. oscillates
  9. vacillates
  10. fluctuates
  11. varies

Alternates Sentence Examples

  • Mountain alternates with valley, so that not more than one-eighth of the countrys entire area is cultivable.

  • There is some poetry in this composition, but it alternates with very prosaic details.

  • Ancient myths are admitted without undergoing analysis; the most naïve realism alternates with daring efforts at spiritualizing.

  • In the Marquette district of Michigan (Lake Superior) schistose specular ore occurs in important deposits, associated with a jasper rock, in which the ore alternates with bands of red quartzite.

  • The plants are admirably adapted for climates in which a season favourable to growth alternates with a hot or dry season;.

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