otherwise

UK /ˈʌð.əˌwaɪz/ US /ˈʌð.ɚˌwaɪz/
adv 3adj 1

Definitions

adv

1

Differently, in another way.

You may have a point, but I think otherwise.

Could I do otherwise than smile?

2

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.

3

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

1

Other than supposed; different.

He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise.

Statistics need lots of information, digital and otherwise.

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