Else

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Other; different: Ask somebody else.
  • adj. Additional; more: Would you like anything else?
  • ad. In a different or additional time, place, or manner: I always do it this way and I don't know how else it could be done. Where else do you want to go besides Miami?
  • ad. If not; otherwise: Be careful, or else you will make a mess.
  • idiom. or else Regardless of any extenuating circumstances: Be there on time or else!
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
  • ad. Otherwise, if not.
  • conjunction. For otherwise; or else.
  • conjunction. but if the condition of the previous if clause is false, do the following.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Other; one or something beside
  • ad. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition
  • ad. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In another or a different manner; in some other way; to a different purpose; otherwise.
  • In another or a different case; if the fact were different; otherwise.
  • Besides; other than the person, thing, place, etc., mentioned: after an interrogative or indefinite pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb (who, what, where, etc., anybody, anything, somebody, something, nobody, nothing, all, little, etc.), as a quasi-adjective, equivalent to other: as, who else is coming? what else shall give you? do you expect anything else?
  • [The phrases anybody else, somebody else, nobody else, etc., have a unitary meaning, as if one word, and properly take a possessive case (with the suffix at the end of the phrase): as, this is somebody else's hat; nobody else's children act so.]
  • Word Usage
    "We had to go pick up papers, fill out papers, sign papers, drop off papers, stand in lines, walk here, walk there, wait somewhere else, pay for something elseĀ…"
    Antonym
    alike   
    Cross Reference
    god forbid else    not    or    if    then    and   
    Form
    or else   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    other    besides    otherwise    different    beside    more    differently   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    now    alone    almost    only    down    far    least    late    otherwise    for