alternately adjective
al·ter·nate
The adjective form of alternately is alternate
A aDefinitions
- adjective alternately being in a constant state of succession or rotation; interchanged repeatedly one for another: Winter and summer are alternate seasons. 1
- adjective alternately reciprocal; mutual: alternate acts of kindness. 1
- adjective alternately every second one of a series: Read only the alternate lines. 1
- adjective alternately constituting an alternative: The alternate route is more scenic. 1
- adjective alternately alternative (defs 4, 6). 1
- adjective alternately Botany. placed singly at different heights on the axis, on each side in succession, or at definite angular distances from one another, as leaves. opposite to the intervals between other organs: petals alternate with sepals. 1