otherwise engaged
busy doing something else
adv
Differently, in another way.
You may have a point, but I think otherwise.
Could I do otherwise than smile?
In different circumstances; or else.
I’m not well today, otherwise I would have helped.
You have to open your umbrella, otherwise you'll get wet.
In all other respects.
He lost his temper once in a while. Otherwise he behaved rationally.
Looking back at more than four years spent going to college I can now positively say that the most meaninful thing I accomplished (the only meaningful thing I accomplished!) was establishing a gay liberation group on campus. Otherwise my college education was almost useless.
adj
Other than supposed; different.
He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise.
Statistics need lots of information, digital and otherwise.