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Synonyms and Antonyms of alternate

synonym (synonym of alternate)

  • (noun.person)
    replacement, surrogate
    someone who takes the place of another person (noun.person)
     
  • (verb.change)
    jump
    go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    understudy
    be an understudy or alternate for a role (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.change)
    flip, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack
    reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.change)
    take turns
    do something in turns (verb.change)
     
  • (adj.all)
    alternative, substitute
    serving or used in place of another (adj.all)
     
  • (adj.all)
    alternating
    occurring by turns; first one and then the other (adj.all)
     

antonym (antonym of alternate)

  • (adj.all)
    opposite, paired
    of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem (adj.all)
     

similar (similar with alternate)

  • occurring by turns; first one and then the other (adj.all)
    cyclic, cyclical, cyclic, cyclical
    recurring in cycles (adj.all)
     
  • serving or used in place of another (adj.all)
    secondary
    being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate (adj.all)
     

hypernym (alternate IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • be an understudy or alternate for a role (verb.cognition)
    con, learn, memorise, memorize
    commit to memory; learn by heart (verb.cognition)
     
  • do something in turns (verb.change)
    act, move
    perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) (verb.social)
     
  • exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions (verb.social)
    exchange
    hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent (verb.social)
     
  • go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions (verb.change)
    alter, change, vary
    become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence (verb.change)
     
  • reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) (verb.change)
    change by reversal, reverse, turn
    change to the contrary (verb.change)
     
  • someone who takes the place of another person (noun.person)
    backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute
    someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) (noun.person)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF alternate relation)

  • do something in turns (verb.change)
    spell
    take turns working (verb.change)
     
  • exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions (verb.social)
    rotate
    exchange on a regular basis (verb.social)
     

derivation (.... is derived from alternate)

  • be an understudy or alternate for a role (verb.cognition)
    alternate, replacement, surrogate
    someone who takes the place of another person (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    standby, understudy
    an actor able to replace a regular performer when required (noun.person)
     
  • do something in turns (verb.change)
    alternation, alternation
    successive change from one thing or state to another and back again (noun.act)
     
  • reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) (verb.change)
    shift, switch, switching
    the act of changing one thing or position for another (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    tack, tacking
    (nautical) the act of changing tack (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnabout, turnaround
    a decision to reverse an earlier decision (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.event)
    permutation, replacement, substitution, switch, transposition
    an event in which one thing is substituted for another (noun.event)
     
  • serving or used in place of another (adj.all)
    replacement, substitute
    a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.person)
    backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in, substitute
    someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) (noun.person)
     
  • someone who takes the place of another person (noun.person)
    replace
    substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) (verb.change)
     
  • (verb.cognition)
    alternate, understudy
    be an understudy or alternate for a role (verb.cognition)
     
  • (verb.social)
    alternate
    exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions (verb.social)
     
  • (verb.social)
    replace, supercede, supersede, supervene upon, supplant
    take the place or move into the position of (verb.social)
     
  • (adj.all)
    alternate, alternative, substitute
    serving or used in place of another (adj.all)
     

domain category (alternate is domain category of ....)

  • of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired (adj.all)
    botany, phytology
    the branch of biology that studies plants (noun.cognition)
     
synonym antonym similar hypernym hyponym derivation domain category replacement surrogate jump understudy flip flip-flop opposite paired cyclic cyclical secondary backup backup man act move alter change spell rotate replace supercede supersede alternative substitute botany phytology
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