Else

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  • adjective. Other; different.
  • adjective. Additional; more.
  • adverb. In a different or additional time, place, or manner.
  • idiom. (or else) Used to indicate an alternative.
  • idiom. (or else) Used to indicate negative consequences that will result if an action is not followed.
  • idiom. (or else) Used after a command or demand to make a threat:
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In another or a different manner; in some other way; to a different purpose; otherwise.
  • In another or a different case; if the fact were different; otherwise.
  • Besides; other than the person, thing, place, etc., mentioned: after an interrogative or indefinite pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb (who, what, where, etc., anybody, anything, somebody, something, nobody, nothing, all, little, etc.), as a quasi-adjective, equivalent to other: as, who else is coming? what else shall give you? do you expect anything else?
  • [The phrases anybody else, somebody else, nobody else, etc., have a unitary meaning, as if one word, and properly take a possessive case (with the suffix at the end of the phrase): as, this is somebody else's hat; nobody else's children act so.]
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Other; one or something beside
  • adverb. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition
  • adverb. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
  • adverb. Otherwise, if not.
  • conjunction. For otherwise; or else.
  • conjunction. but if the condition of the previous if clause is false, do the following.
  • Word Usage
    "We had to go pick up papers, fill out papers, sign papers, drop off papers, stand in lines, walk here, walk there, wait somewhere else, pay for something elseĀ…"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    alike  
    cross-reference
    and  god forbid else  if  not  or  
    Form
    or else  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    about  almost  alone  better  body  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    above  added  additionally  again  alias