We often look for replacements for people, expensive medicines or equipment. But rarely when we think about it, and the alternative is what the concept is. Today we’ll make it out.
Value
You can think a lot about it or put forward various hypotheses, but still not get to the truth. Only an explanatory dictionary can bring young and not so researchers to the light. It says that the alternative is "the need to choose one of two (or several) possible solutions." “Everything is so simple, but we thought!” - exclaim the readers. Yes, the definition is simple, but it's better when you know for sure, and this applies not only to the meaning of words.
After we have scouted, the alternative - what kind of beast is this, it is necessary to consolidate the success of similar concepts.
Synonyms
The noun itself does not have a huge number of analogues because of the complexity of the meaning that it incorporates. But you can still replace the concept with something. So the list:
“Choice” was included in the list rather in meaning than in the fact that it is a substitute for the object of study. The thought seems to need clarification. Recall that when we crave alternatives, we do not yearn for a solution to a problem or dilemma. A person in this situation just wants a different choice.
For example, a woman has a husband who earns little, is lazy, and in general she needs another husband. In colloquial speech, the noun “alternative” approaches the meaning of a related adjective.
Or, for example, a person’s laptop is broken, and he needs an alternative (that’s understandable) - another machine.
Adjective and the phrase "alternative story"
Theory, theory, you can already talk about something more exciting. We have already realized the complexity of the relationship between a noun and an adjective, but in order to better understand the meaning of the latter, we will select synonyms for it. The list looks like this:
- other;
- different;
- unlike;
- new;
- a great.
We think the meaning is clear.
As for the phrase “alternative history”, this is a bottomless well for all those who feed on literary and screenwriting work. First of all, we are talking about science fiction.
But it is precisely today that we set aside books of this kind and recall films that exploit such an idea.
Who doesn’t need to talk about the alternative - what it is is to the heroes of the film “Back to the Future”, as well as the inseparable couple of Sam and Al from the television series “Quantum Leap”. The former, due to various circumstances, encountered the horrors of alternative history, while others specialize in improving people's lives, changing the past in a direction that is pleasing to God.
True, the literary works of Stephen King and Ray Bradbury ("11/22/63", "And the Thunder struck" respectively) will oppose the idea that the future or the present can be changed for the better, but we will not be boring, because a person always wants to believe in the good. By the way, it is also interesting that there are relatively more works in which people rebuild something in the past than those that tell about a prosperous life after death, forgive the pun. This suggests that what is more important to a person is what can be done with his life, how to change it, than what will happen to him after he leaves this world. Although the latter interests some as much as the first. The torment can be expressed by the question: "Does life have an alternative?" Here everyone decides for himself, but, in general, death, which some people think is an alternative to life, is not such, if only because it is a different state of the body, but whether the spirit survives and whether consciousness remains after the disaster is a big question.
From philosophical problems, we return to earth and inform you: the lexical meaning of the word “alternative” is the one given above (in the paragraph “Value”), so use it boldly.