alternate (219 synonym found)

Alternate has 219 synonyms. The top synonyms for alternate are battledore and shuttlecock, return the compliment, second in command, go through phases, executive officer, ring the changes, come round again, pass and repass and 211 more. Browse the full list below.

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battledore and shuttlecock
return the compliment
second in command
go through phases
executive officer
ring the changes
come round again
pass and repass
next best thing
interchangeable
vice-president
utility player
representative
hitch and hike
back-and-forth
wibble-wabble
vicar general
teeter-totter
shilly-shally
second string
reciprocative
give and take
get even with
counterchange
corresponding
come up again
be quits with
be here again
back and fill
amicus curiae
wheel around
wax and wane
third string
tergiversate
substitution
ride and tie
pinch hitter
locum tenens
keep a watch
intermittent
exchangeable
ebb and flow
vice-regent
utility man
up-and-down
succedaneum
substituent
shuttlecock
roll around
replacement
reciprocate
provisional
oscillatory
isochronous
interchange
in rotation
hold office
have tenure
ghostwriter
get back at
fill in for
every other
counterfeit
come around
come and go
alternative
alternating
vicegerent
undulatory
understudy
to-and-fro
take turns
synecdoche
supplanter
superseder
successive
substitute
serve time
reciprocal
procurator
periodical
metronomic
lieutenant
isochronal
figurehead
equivocate
equivalent
do a stint
do a hitch
compensate
comparison
come round
come again
changeling
backup man
vicarious
vacillate
transpose
tentative
temporary
surrogate
spell off
sine wave
retaliate
replacing
recurring
recurrent
personnel
pendulate
paranymph
oscillate
makeshift
imitation
have a go
fluctuate
do a tour
alter ego
wheeling
wavelike
undulate
undulant
time off
stand-in
seasonal
rotating
rhythmic
reserves
reliever
reenlist
reappear
periodic
pay back
metonymy
metaphor
measured
flounder
exponent
exchange
circling
champion
variant
utility
succeed
stopgap
stagger
sign up
shuttle
shuffle
respond
reserve
requite
reoccur
pulsing
pulsate
pleader
permute
logroll
fill-in
epochal
do time
commute
beating
analogy
zigzag
wobble
wigwag
totter
teeter
symbol
switch
steady
spares
serial
seesaw
rotate
rotary
ringer
return
repeat
relief
ersatz
enlist
double
dither
deputy
cyclic
circle
backup
wheel
waver
vicar
trade
token
swing
spell
spare
recur
re-up
pulse
proxy
pinch
phony
other
locum
ghost
equal
dummy
cover
bandy
agent
vice
vary
turn
sway
swap
mock
even
copy
sub

Frequently asked questions

What is a synonym for alternate?

A common synonym for alternate is battledore and shuttlecock. Other synonyms include return the compliment, second in command, go through phases, executive officer.

How many synonyms does alternate have?

Alternate has 219 synonyms listed on Thesaurasize.

What does alternate mean?

(adj): being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal; designating the members in a series, which regula

Definition of alternate:

(adj) : being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal; designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second
"and bid alternate passions fall and rise. -Pope"
(n) : that which alternates with something else; vicissitude; (Misuse) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty
"grateful alternates of substantial. -Prior"
(v) : to perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly; to happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;—followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other
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Definition of alternate:

(adj) : being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal; designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second
"and bid alternate passions fall and rise. -Pope"
(n) : that which alternates with something else; vicissitude; (Misuse) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty
"grateful alternates of substantial. -Prior"
(v) : to perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly; to happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;—followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other
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