Synonyms for Alternate:

• adj.

  •acting (adjective)
  • working,
  • performing,
  • provisional,
  • functioning,
  • practicing,
  • deputy,
  • operating.
  •all (adjective)
  • alternate.
  •discontinuous (adjective)
  • un connected,
  • in-coherent,
  • dis connected,
  • dis-ordered,
  • in coherent,
  • in-choate,
  • un-organized,
  • dis jointed,
  • dis-continuous,
  • more incohesive,
  • dis-connected,
  • in-cohesive,
  • most incohesive,
  • in cohesive,
  • dis-jointed,
  • un-connected,
  • dis ordered,
  • in choate,
  • un organized,
  • dis continuous.
  •intermittent (adjective)
  • here there,
  • by bits pieces,
  • stop and go,
  • most periodical,
  • most checked,
  • more recurring,
  • most stop and go,
  • more discontinuing,
  • more periodical,
  • most shifting,
  • on off,
  • most iterant,
  • more seasonal,
  • shifting,
  • more stop-and-go,
  • dis continuing,
  • re curring,
  • more punctuated,
  • more checked,
  • more iterant,
  • most recurring,
  • most punctuated,
  • most stop-and-go,
  • most seasonal,
  • more shifting,
  • more epochal,
  • epochal,
  • most discontinuing,
  • more stop and go,
  • most epochal,
  • dis-continuing,
  • in frequent,
  • in-frequent,
  • re-curring.
  •isochronal (adjective)
  • like clockwork.
  •on-again, off-again (adjective)
  • on again, off again.
  •periodic (adjective)
  • every once while,
  • more fluctuating,
  • more on-again-off-again,
  • most orbital,
  • most fluctuating,
  • weeklier,
  • more centennial,
  • re gular,
  • most on again off again,
  • more on again off again,
  • hourliest,
  • hourlier,
  • more orbital,
  • every once a while,
  • every once in while,
  • every once in a while,
  • re-gular,
  • most on-again-off-again,
  • most centennial,
  • monthlier,
  • weekliest,
  • monthliest.
  •recurrent (adjective)
  • study at,
  • chainer,
  • repetitive.
  •secondary (adjective)
  • de pendent,
  • more substract,
  • more accessory,
  • more small-fry,
  • most reserve,
  • re-lief,
  • de-pendent,
  • most small fry,
  • most under,
  • most smallfry,
  • most accessory,
  • more reserve,
  • more backup,
  • in-considerable,
  • bushleague,
  • in significant,
  • re-serve,
  • in considerable,
  • un-important,
  • re liefer,
  • re serve,
  • smallfry,
  • reliefer,
  • re-liefest,
  • re liefest,
  • most backup,
  • minor-league,
  • minorleague,
  • more smallfry,
  • most substract,
  • more small fry,
  • re-liefer,
  • re lief,
  • reliefest,
  • most small-fry,
  • more under.
  •short-range (adjective)
  • tactical.
  •short-term (adjective)
  • shortterm,
  • short term.
  •substitute (adjective)
  • stand-in,
  • vicarial,
  • proxier,
  • Substitutive.
  •temporary (adjective)
  • bandaid,
  • most band aid,
  • most makedo,
  • un-stablest,
  • over-night,
  • suppliest,
  • more unfixed,
  • more band-aid,
  • most make do,
  • most unfixed,
  • provisory,
  • more make-do,
  • un stabler,
  • more make do,
  • un stable,
  • shortlived,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-fixed,
  • more band aid,
  • for time being,
  • un fixed,
  • more overnight,
  • most bandaid,
  • most band-aid,
  • makedo,
  • most make-do,
  • short lived,
  • more bandaid,
  • more makedo,
  • un-stable,
  • most overnight,
  • un stablest.
  •transverse (adjective)
  • cross-wise,
  • trans verse,
  • trans-verse,
  • more crosswise,
  • cross wise.

• n.

  •
  • change your mind,
  • adapt,
  • renounce,
  • revise,
  • capitulate,
  • move with the times,
  • move on,
  • see reason/sense,
  • backpedal.
  •
  • follow,
  • relieve,
  • ...only to do something,
  • (hard/hot/close) on the heels of.
  •
  • alter,
  • waver,
  • shuffle,
  • turn into,
  • convert,
  • diversify,
  • change into,
  • teeter,
  • become,
  • tend,
  • go into.
  •
  • (as) regular as clockwork,
  • constantly.
  •
  • beggars can't be choosers,
  • straight.
  •agent (noun)
  • liaison,
  • factor,
  • agency,
  • intermediary,
  • middleman,
  • instrument,
  • broker,
  • mediator,
  • go-between,
  • vehicle,
  • actor,
  • operative,
  • impresario,
  • ombudsman.
  •alternate (noun)
  • take turns,
  • oscillate,
  • follow one another,
  • rotating,
  • chop and change,
  • alternating,
  • substitute,
  • intersperse,
  • every second,
  • replace each other,
  • Interchanging,
  • or,
  • consecutive,
  • (repeated) one after the other,
  • reciprocal,
  • in turns,
  • take it in turns,
  • alternate bouts of depression and happiness,
  • alternate weekends.
  •alternative (noun)
  • other,
  • makeshift.
  •cyclic (noun)
  • cyclic.
  •cyclical (noun)
  • cyclical.
  •delegate (noun)
  • vicar,
  • viceroy,
  • catchpole,
  • people's choice,
  • replacement.
  •deputy (noun)
  • appointee,
  • second,
  • figurehead,
  • attorney,
  • mouthpiece,
  • token,
  • nominee,
  • servant,
  • double,
  • assistant,
  • emissary,
  • agent,
  • lieutenant,
  • dummy,
  • aide,
  • representative,
  • ghost,
  • envoy,
  • understudy,
  • proxy,
  • acolyte,
  • helpmate,
  • auxiliary,
  • spokeswoman,
  • helper,
  • arm,
  • attendant,
  • spokesman.
  •fill-in (noun)
  • fillin.
  •flip (noun)
  • flip.
  •flip-flop (noun)
  • flip-flop.
  •pinch hitter (noun)
  • designated hitters.
  •proxy (noun)
  • re presentative,
  • re-presentative,
  • mediaries.
  •stand-in (noun)
  • standin.
  •substitute (noun)
  • alternative,
  • counterfeit,
  • fill in,
  • imitation.
  •surrogate (noun)
  • substitute agents.
  •understudy (noun)
  • under-study,
  • under studies,
  • under-studies,
  • stand-byes,
  • under study,
  • stand byes,
  • standbyes.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • jump.
  •exchange (verb)
  • contacts with,
  • goes over to,
  • contacted with,
  • swaps horses,
  • ex changing,
  • re-vised,
  • hooking up,
  • converting into,
  • flipflopped,
  • return compliment,
  • ex-changed,
  • turns the tables,
  • horse trades,
  • bought sell,
  • re-vise,
  • re-arrange,
  • hooks up,
  • ex-change,
  • buys sell,
  • trans acts,
  • returns the compliment,
  • returned the compliment,
  • went over to,
  • ex change,
  • flip flop,
  • buying sell,
  • trans acting,
  • horse traded,
  • trans-acted,
  • convert in to,
  • flip-flopped,
  • dealt in,
  • returning compliment,
  • trans act,
  • buying and sell,
  • passed to,
  • buy sell,
  • re arrange,
  • turning tables,
  • swapped horses,
  • flipflopping,
  • re-arranges,
  • turn tables,
  • trans acted,
  • turning the tables,
  • ex changes,
  • converts into,
  • passes to,
  • links up,
  • giving and take,
  • re-vising,
  • contacting with,
  • cashing in,
  • flip flopping,
  • re vised,
  • going over to,
  • trans-acting,
  • converted in to,
  • gave take,
  • pays back,
  • gives take,
  • gives and take,
  • returns compliment,
  • trans-acts,
  • re arranges,
  • cashed in,
  • re-arranging,
  • giving take,
  • passing to,
  • trans-act,
  • payed back,
  • returning the compliment,
  • cashes in,
  • re-arranged,
  • swapping horses,
  • turned tables,
  • re vise,
  • turns tables,
  • ex-changes,
  • bought and sell,
  • returned compliment,
  • converting in to,
  • buys and sell,
  • give take,
  • gave and take,
  • ex-changing,
  • re arranging,
  • converts in to,
  • ex changed,
  • flip flopped,
  • re vising,
  • re arranged.
  •fluctuate (verb)
  • ebbed flow,
  • ebbing and flow,
  • go and down,
  • ebbs flow,
  • ebbing flow,
  • yo yos,
  • went up and down,
  • yo yoing,
  • rises and fall,
  • yo yo,
  • goes up and down,
  • going up and down,
  • wast undecided,
  • ebb flow,
  • rise fall,
  • going up down,
  • yo yoed,
  • being undecided,
  • yo-yoed,
  • were undecided,
  • hem haw,
  • yoyos,
  • ebbed and flow,
  • am undecided,
  • yo-yoing,
  • rose fall,
  • yoyoed,
  • went up down,
  • is undecided,
  • go up down,
  • goes and down,
  • ebbs and flow,
  • blow hot cold,
  • are undecided,
  • rose and fall,
  • rising and fall,
  • rising fall,
  • going and down,
  • went and down,
  • goes up down,
  • was undecided,
  • rises fall,
  • wert undecided,
  • art undecided,
  • yoyoing.
  •hesitate (verb)
  • art unwilling,
  • are irresolute,
  • de bate,
  • am unwilling,
  • is unwilling,
  • is irresolute,
  • thought twice,
  • being unwilling,
  • sitting fence,
  • sate fence,
  • de-laying,
  • wert unwilling,
  • thinks twice,
  • de-bating,
  • being irresolute,
  • de lay,
  • sits fence,
  • were reluctant,
  • de-bates,
  • sate on fence,
  • am reluctant,
  • was reluctant,
  • wast reluctant,
  • sat on fence,
  • de-lay,
  • wast unwilling,
  • art irresolute,
  • de laying,
  • sit fence,
  • wert irresolute,
  • de bating,
  • shied away,
  • shying away,
  • was unwilling,
  • de bates,
  • am irresolute,
  • wert reluctant,
  • art reluctant,
  • holds off,
  • were irresolute,
  • de-lays,
  • are unwilling,
  • are reluctant,
  • sits on fence,
  • de-bated,
  • de bated,
  • being reluctant,
  • sitting on fence,
  • is reluctant,
  • were unwilling,
  • shies away,
  • de lays,
  • de-bate,
  • sat fence,
  • wast irresolute,
  • was irresolute.
  •interchange (verb)
  • inter change,
  • inter acts,
  • inter-changing,
  • inter-acted,
  • inter acting,
  • inter acted,
  • inter-faced,
  • inter faces,
  • inter facing,
  • inter faced,
  • inter-face,
  • inter-changed,
  • re late,
  • inter-acts,
  • inter-facing,
  • inter changes,
  • inter face,
  • inter-faces,
  • inter act,
  • inter-acting,
  • inter changed,
  • inter-changes,
  • inter-act,
  • re-lated,
  • inter changing.
  •interlace (verb)
  • inter-weaving,
  • inter weaving,
  • inter-weave,
  • inter-weaved,
  • inter-wove,
  • inter weave,
  • inter-laces,
  • inter weaved,
  • inter laced,
  • inter-laced,
  • inter weaves,
  • inter woven,
  • inter lace,
  • inter-lace,
  • inter laces,
  • inter lacing,
  • inter-lacing.
  •oscillate (verb)
  • throb,
  • totter,
  • tremble,
  • wag,
  • sway,
  • wobble,
  • librate,
  • pulsate,
  • tick,
  • undulate,
  • rock,
  • bob,
  • pulse,
  • vibrate,
  • radiate.
  •pinch-hit (verb)
  • pinchhit.
  •roll (verb)
  • are in sequence,
  • art sequence,
  • was in sequence,
  • swings around,
  • are sequence,
  • swinging around,
  • is in sequence,
  • goes around,
  • were sequence,
  • circumducting,
  • am sequence,
  • was sequence,
  • being sequence,
  • went past,
  • circumducted,
  • circumducts,
  • wert sequence,
  • be sequence,
  • swang around,
  • wert in sequence,
  • wast sequence,
  • were in sequence,
  • being in sequence,
  • art in sequence,
  • is sequence,
  • wast in sequence.
  •seesaw (verb)
  • teetertottering,
  • teeter tottering,
  • teetertottered,
  • teeter totter,
  • teeter totters,
  • teetertotters,
  • teeter tottered.
  •stagger (verb)
  • over lapping,
  • titubates,
  • over-lap,
  • over-laps,
  • titubated,
  • over lapped,
  • over-lapping,
  • over lap,
  • whiffles,
  • over-lapped,
  • titubating,
  • over laps,
  • top pled.
  •substitute (verb)
  • commute,
  • swap,
  • subrogate,
  • switch,
  • imitate,
  • replace,
  • trade,
  • supersede,
  • displace,
  • supplant,
  • represent.
  •turn (verb)
  • de tract,
  • re-channelled,
  • re lapsing,
  • changing position,
  • up-setting,
  • re-channels,
  • re-coiled,
  • re-tracing,
  • re-lapsing,
  • in-verse,
  • re directing,
  • de-tracts,
  • re-coil,
  • about faced,
  • voltefacing,
  • Re-turn,
  • re trace,
  • de touring,
  • in verse,
  • de parting,
  • inversing,
  • re-trace,
  • re traced,
  • re channelled,
  • in-clines,
  • re channelling,
  • re turn,
  • re coils,
  • re-channeled,
  • re tracing,
  • re-lapsed,
  • voltefaces,
  • volte-faced,
  • in-cline,
  • re turning,
  • de-touring,
  • de-part,
  • re-channel,
  • facing about,
  • re directs,
  • volteface,
  • re channeled,
  • re-directing,
  • re coiled,
  • re-traces,
  • de tracts,
  • up-set,
  • re channeling,
  • re channel,
  • re-coils,
  • in-versed,
  • re traces,
  • rechannelled,
  • re coil,
  • re-directed,
  • volte faced,
  • voltefaced,
  • re-coiling,
  • re-turning,
  • re channels,
  • in versing,
  • re-lapses,
  • re-turns,
  • re lapsed,
  • about facing,
  • changes position,
  • re-lapse,
  • de-tract,
  • up-sets,
  • in-versing,
  • up setting,
  • in versed,
  • re-turned,
  • re-direct,
  • re-channeling,
  • de parts,
  • de tours,
  • in cline,
  • faced about,
  • de-tours,
  • re-traced,
  • re coiling,
  • de-toured,
  • re directed,
  • changed position,
  • re-directs,
  • volte-facing,
  • about face,
  • re turns,
  • de-parts,
  • up sets,
  • faces about,
  • volte facing,
  • de-tour,
  • de part,
  • de-parted,
  • re-channelling,
  • re lapse,
  • re lapses,
  • de toured,
  • re direct,
  • de tour,
  • de parted,
  • de-parting,
  • in clines.
  •vacillate (verb)
  • running hot cold,
  • changes mind,
  • are indecisive,
  • fence-straddles,
  • fencestraddled,
  • fencestraddles,
  • is indecisive,
  • changed mind,
  • being indecisive,
  • ran hot cold,
  • changing mind,
  • ran hot and cold,
  • pussyfooting around,
  • fence straddling,
  • pussyfooted around,
  • was indecisive,
  • runs hot cold,
  • runs hot and cold,
  • wert indecisive,
  • fence straddled,
  • fencestraddle,
  • fence-straddled,
  • fencestraddling,
  • fence straddle,
  • fence straddles,
  • shilly shally,
  • art indecisive,
  • were indecisive,
  • run hot cold,
  • pussyfoots around,
  • wast indecisive.
  •vary (verb)
  • art unlike,
  • taking turns,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • dis agreeing,
  • is unlike,
  • were unlike,
  • permutates,
  • took turns,
  • dis sent,
  • dis agree,
  • dis-agree,
  • am unlike,
  • divaricates,
  • dis sents,
  • are unlike,
  • takes turns,
  • dis-agrees,
  • dis-agreed,
  • wert unlike,
  • permutating,
  • permutated,
  • dis-sents,
  • dis agrees,
  • wast unlike,
  • dis-sent,
  • being unlike,
  • dis agreed,
  • was unlike.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • diurnal,
  • nightly,
  • daily,
  • hourly,
  • selective,
  • bimonthly,
  • semiweekly,
  • chosen,
  • triennial,
  • annually,
  • ring in,
  • selectively,
  • follow on from,
  • vary,
  • probabilistic,
  • handpicked,
  • sub,
  • ensue,
  • half-hourly,
  • religiously,
  • circadian.
  •
  • afterthought,
  • settled,
  • reserve,
  • spaced,
  • correlate,
  • postdate,
  • standby,
  • rotate,
  • biennial,
  • select,
  • reciprocate.
  •
  • metaphor,
  • regular,
  • regularly.
  •change
  • remaking,
  • remake,
  • tampering with,
  • Revolutionizing,
  • re-formed,
  • metamorphose,
  • restyle,
  • Metamorphosed,
  • Re-form,
  • Evolved,
  • remakes,
  • switch around,
  • restyling,
  • tampered with,
  • restyled,
  • transfigure,
  • warp,
  • made over,
  • make over,
  • tamper with,
  • traded,
  • tampers with,
  • Reversing,
  • make innovations,
  • transformed.
  •hesitate
  • pussyfoot,
  • thinking about,
  • scruple,
  • pulling back,
  • Floundered,
  • pulls back,
  • be unwilling,
  • dithering,
  • pull back,
  • thought about,
  • shy away,
  • think about,
  • stutter,
  • thinking twice,
  • pulled back,
  • Hesitated,
  • dithered,
  • be reluctant,
  • think twice,
  • sit on fence,
  • hold off,
  • thinks about,
  • be irresolute,
  • Stammered.
  •interchange
  • inter-change,
  • interacting,
  • interfacing,
  • interact,
  • interfaces,
  • interfaced,
  • interface.
  •roll
  • spiraling,
  • goes past,
  • Trundling,
  • Circumduct,
  • gyred,
  • swung around,
  • gyring,
  • going past,
  • Eddying,
  • trundle,
  • Pirouetting,
  • go past,
  • spiraled,
  • Pirouetted,
  • pirouette,
  • be in sequence,
  • go around,
  • Trundled,
  • went around,
  • going around,
  • elapse,
  • trundles,
  • Eddied,
  • spiralling,
  • pirouettes,
  • swing around,
  • wheeled,
  • spiralled.
  •substitute
  • proxied,
  • subbed,
  • serve in one's stead,
  • double for,
  • be in place of,
  • cover for,
  • proxying,
  • take over,
  • do the work of,
  • stand in for,
  • acted for,
  • taking over,
  • subbing,
  • take another's place,
  • act for,
  • fill one's position,
  • go as,
  • swap places with,
  • stood in for.
  •vary
  • permutate,
  • divaricate,
  • Divaricating,
  • Inflecting,
  • inflected,
  • be unlike,
  • Divaricated,
  • inflects,
  • inflect.
  •Other relevant words:
  • interrelated,
  • commence,
  • revolve,
  • furthermore,
  • dawdle,
  • exponent,
  • additional,
  • sequential,
  • also,
  • oscillatory,
  • repeatedly,
  • throw,
  • succedaneum,
  • hem and haw,
  • refilling,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • bandy,
  • aide-de-camp,
  • swop,
  • stunt woman,
  • recur,
  • flit,
  • come around,
  • go,
  • nonetheless,
  • startle,
  • supportive,
  • stunt man,
  • moreover,
  • come round,
  • even,
  • equal,
  • Paranymph,
  • permutation,
  • wamble,
  • retaliate,
  • fill in for,
  • leap,
  • ancillary,
  • correlative,
  • another,
  • lower,
  • swing,
  • consequent,
  • dangle,
  • wheeling,
  • come again,
  • symbol,
  • by turns,
  • toss,
  • to and fro,
  • cover,
  • generally,
  • spell,
  • advocate,
  • Girl Friday,
  • circling,
  • differ,
  • interchangeable,
  • summer school,
  • alternatively,
  • rotary,
  • Commutual,
  • pleader,
  • permute,
  • spokesperson,
  • shift,
  • broken,
  • hum and haw,
  • international,
  • next,
  • replacing,
  • flash,
  • flicker,
  • leaf,
  • palter,
  • different,
  • utility,
  • exchangeable,
  • minister,
  • renaissance,
  • be quits with,
  • inferior,
  • flounder,
  • come next,
  • corresponding,
  • stand out,
  • renewal,
  • parachute,
  • have a go,
  • habitually,
  • ordinarily,
  • stick out,
  • turn over,
  • in turn,
  • blink,
  • continuity,
  • vice president,
  • nod,
  • fumble,
  • ghostwriter,
  • sparely,
  • in rotation,
  • sequent,
  • Isochronous,
  • Unsuccessive,
  • forward,
  • come after,
  • fitful,
  • swerve,
  • diverge,
  • nuncio,
  • successor,
  • superseder,
  • counterchange,
  • be here again,
  • alternation,
  • complementary,
  • closely related,
  • etc,
  • switch over,
  • transposition,
  • skip over,
  • extra,
  • logroll,
  • reflexive,
  • get even with,
  • renovation,
  • courtesy,
  • Discrepance,
  • time off,
  • wavelike,
  • space,
  • variant,
  • reoccur,
  • curtsy,
  • extension,
  • Reinforcements,
  • begin,
  • derail,
  • climb up,
  • cooperate,
  • relief,
  • alter ego,
  • mutual,
  • proximate,
  • rearrange,
  • Man Friday,
  • Undulant,
  • phony,
  • locum tenens,
  • rise,
  • supplanter,
  • unsparingly,
  • Substituent,
  • changeling,
  • change over,
  • baste,
  • metonymy,
  • serve time,
  • come on,
  • Wabble,
  • retract,
  • metronomic,
  • riffle,
  • substitution,
  • modify,
  • periodical,
  • supporting,
  • remittent,
  • rhythmical,
  • sputter,
  • comparison,
  • respond,
  • reciprocative,
  • deviation,
  • variety,
  • bound,
  • synecdoche,
  • subordinate,
  • trim,
  • discrete,
  • secondarily,
  • mock,
  • unconnected,
  • besides,
  • deviate,
  • get back at,
  • second-line,
  • interrupted,
  • waggle,
  • Isochronal,
  • divergency,
  • up-and-down,
  • flip out,
  • re-up,
  • Undulatory,
  • shake,
  • enlist,
  • pinch-hit,
  • serial,
  • memorize,
  • Baseball designated hitter,
  • copy,
  • interdependent,
  • modification,
  • spare,
  • tack,
  • hitch and hike,
  • swag,
  • succeeding,
  • spasmodic,
  • compensate,
  • ringer,
  • waffle,
  • incidental,
  • legate,
  • often,
  • derivative,
  • swither,
  • jump-start,
  • reciprocally,
  • take,
  • jump out,
  • dilly-dally,
  • alteration,
  • caprice,
  • selection,
  • continually,
  • intermit,
  • start,
  • choice,
  • champion,
  • commonly,
  • alternator,
  • utility player,
  • Haver,
  • disconnected,
  • rhythmic,
  • ersatz,
  • battledore and shuttlecock,
  • complemental,
  • back-and-forth,
  • mutually,
  • disjunctive,
  • mutually exclusive,
  • tergiversate,
  • backup man,
  • engage in,
  • reserves,
  • beating,
  • discrepancy,
  • See-saw,
  • Recurring,
  • vice,
  • leap out,
  • version,
  • wave,
  • falter,
  • follow in turn,
  • ambassador,
  • sign up,
  • roll around,
  • recurrent,
  • amicus curiae,
  • equivocate,
  • stopgap,
  • flick,
  • vice-regent,
  • frequently,
  • executive officer,
  • usually,
  • pinch,
  • flitter,
  • wheel,
  • replenishment,
  • vicar general,
  • yet,
  • procurator,
  • minor,
  • fake,
  • cycle,
  • sign,
  • Reenlist,
  • Intermitting,
  • tentative,
  • sky,
  • requite,
  • innovation,
  • special school,
  • each other,
  • wheel around,
  • do time,
  • still more,
  • supporter,
  • possibility,
  • number two,
  • aberration,
  • personnel,
  • desultory,
  • originate,
  • utility man,
  • flip over,
  • Amoebean,
  • again,
  • wigwag,
  • sine wave,
  • subsequent,
  • irregular,
  • measured,
  • public school,
  • return,
  • come and go,
  • Pendulate,
  • interexchange,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • wax and wane,
  • shuttle,
  • act reciprocally,
  • hold office,
  • alternately,
  • Sequacious,
  • delay,
  • analogy,
  • circle,
  • locum,
  • vicegerent,
  • option,
  • shuttlecock,
  • dither,
  • pass over,
  • SPARES,
  • reappear,
  • play,
  • much more,
  • gal Friday,
  • shed,
  • succeed,
  • backer,
  • variation,
  • back and fill,
  • occasional,
  • repair,
  • steady,
  • transpose,
  • successive,
  • off-and-on,
  • vicarious,
  • zigzag,
  • equivalent,
  • repeat.

Paraphrases for Alternate:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    alternating.
  • Proper noun, singular
    alternatives.
  • Noun, plural
    alternatives.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    alternatives.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    substitutes.
  • Noun, plural
    substitutes.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    parallel, alternatives, work-linked, back-up, change-out, replacement, arterial, surrogate, stand-by, fall-back, separate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    directions, topics, Forms, models, replacement, replacements, surrogate, subsitute.
  • Noun, plural
    options, Deputies, locums, replacements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    locum, back-up, replacement, surrogate.
  • Verb, past participle
    opposed.

Antonyms for Alternate:

• adj.

  • all
    opposite.
  • substitute
    necessary.
  • Other antonyms:
    noncyclic, noncyclical, primary.

• n.

  • substitute
    necessity.

• v.

  • take turns, change back and forth
    continue, persist, stay, remain, keep, hold.

Hypernym for Alternate:

• v.

  • social
    rotate.

Hyponym for Alternate:

• n.

  • person
    stand-in, relief, substitute, backup, reliever, fill-in, backup man.

• v.

  • change
    alter, change, vary.
  • social
    exchange.