alternately
19
3.6
- adverb
- /ɔːlˈtɜrnətli/
:
alternadamente
- But she did not spend all her time alternately bullying and cajoling the builders.
The stack of bread alternately grows, then shrinks.
- The stack of bread alternately grows, then shrinks.
- And I spent the next three days in bed alternately crying or laughing because it was ridiculous and absurd.
Examples
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Parker put sheets on the sofa bed while his father alternately dozed and watched a too-quiet television.
Fiction book (1992) -
And I spent the next three days in bed alternately crying or laughing because it was ridiculous and absurd.
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The officer had a hand-held radio, and he was talking alternately into it and the phone.
Fiction book (1994) -
When Maziar's letters began to arrive from Australia, they were alternately in Persian and English.
Fiction book (1996) -
I closed my eyes for a few minutes while my head alternately pounded and subsided.
Fiction book (1996) -
The dog, nudging at her knees, was alternately barking and whining, snarling and whimpering.
Fiction book (1998) -
In her workout routine, she alternately runs and walks to keep her stamina up.
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The weather in spring can be quite unpredictable, with it alternately raining and shining throughout the day.
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He alternately studied science and literature in college, finding joy in both fields.
Synonyms
245
3.3
Happening one after another or as a result of what happened before
1
5.8
Things happen one after another
Antonyms
How Often
740
1.0
386
1.0
19
3.6
15
6.0
438
2.0
13
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Alternately comes from the root alter, which means 'other', and is the same idea behind alternative. So to do things alternately is to use one thing and then the 'other' in turn, one after the other.