Dictionary Definition
else adj
1 other than what is under consideration or
implied; "ask somebody else"; "I don't know what else to do";
"where else can we look?"
2 more; "would you like anything else?"; "I have
nothing else to say" [syn: else(ip), additional] adv
1 additional to or different from this one or
place or time or manner; "nobody else is here"; "she ignored
everything else"; "I don't know where else to look"; "when else can
we have the party?"; "couldn't decide how else it could be
done"
2 (usually used with `or') if not, then; "watch
your step or else you may fall"; "leave or else I'll get
angry"
User Contributed Dictionary
see Else
English
Pronunciation
- /ɛls/, sometimes /ɛlts/
Adjective
Usage notes
- This adjective usually follows a determinative pronoun.
Related terms
- anybody else
- anyone else
- elsewhere
- elsewhither
- everybody else
- everyone else
- someone else
- something else
- what else
Adverb
- A word that implies any result with the exception of the one being referred to.
- A statement that indicates the result of a conditional statement (if) evaluating as false.
Usage notes
- Used with words like how, what, called determiners. (See :Category:English determiners.)
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
word that implies any result with the exception
of the one being referred to
- Danish: ellers
- Dutch: zoniet, anders, in het andere geval
- Finnish: muu, toinen, muuten, muutoin
- French: sinon, autrement
- German: sonst, anders, andernfalls
- Greek: αλλιώς
- Italian: altro
- Swedish: annat (things)
statement in computing that indicates the result
of a conditional statement (if) evaluating as false
- Finnish: muuten
- German: else, sonst
- Greek: αλλιώς
- Italian: altrimenti
- Swedish: annars
- ttbc French: sinon, autrement
- ttbc Serbian: u suprotnom
- ttbc Spanish: sino
- ttbc Swedish: annan (person), annars
See also
Extensive Definition
Else may refer to:
- The Else (2007), an album by They Might Be Giants
- "Else" (1999), a song from Built to Spill's album Keep It Like a Secret
- Part of the "if-then-else" conditional construct in computer programming
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
above,
added, additionally, again, alias, all included, also, altogether, among other
things, and all, and also, and so, another, as well, au reste,
beside, besides, beyond, contrarily, elsewise, en plus, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fresh, further, furthermore, in addition, in
other respects, in other ways, inter alia, into the bargain,
item, likewise, more, moreover, new, not that sort, not the same,
not the type, of a sort, of another sort, of sorts, on the side, on
top of, or else, other,
other than, otherwise,
over, peculiar, plus, rare, similarly, special, sui generis, than, then, therewith, to boot, too, unique, yet