Synonyms for alternate
- verb
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Verb
1. Interchange
Other
take turns, see-saw, vary, understudy, jump, reciprocate, waver
Adjective
other, secondary, interchangeable, fallback, cyclic, cyclical, reciprocal, alternative dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- adj. 1
Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
Related words
- Word family
- alternately alternation alternative alternatingly
- Phrases
- alternate history alternate reality game alternate historian
- Is a kind of
- mix sequence switch
Forms
- Past participle
- alternated
e.g. alternated → interchanged, switched, flipped, tacked…
Example sentences
- flip Yanni was hired to just moronically flip burgers.
- tack I decided to take a different tack with my students.
- jump Many would jump at the chance to live in New York.
By length
- 4 letters
- jump1, flip1, vary2, tack1
- 5 letters
- other2, waver2
- 6 letters
- switch1, cyclic2
- 8 letters
- cyclical3, fallback2
- 9 letters
- secondary4
- 10 letters
- reciprocal4, understudy4
- 11 letters
- alternative4, interchange3, reciprocate4
- 15 letters
- interchangeable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vary2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- alterner
- Español
- alternar
- Deutsch
- alternieren