- alternate, alternative - allowing a choice; "an alternative plan"
Antonym: primary (indirect, via secondary)
- alternative, mutually exclusive - necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'"
Antonym: conjunctive (indirect, via disjunctive)
- alternative - pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style"
Antonym: conventional (indirect, via unconventional)
Antonym: conventional (indirect, via unconventional)
- option, alternative, choice - one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
--1 is a kind of decision making, deciding
--1 has particulars:obverse; preference, druthers; default option, default; possibility, possible action, opening; impossibility, impossible action; Hobson's choice; soft option