Alternate and Short

Alternate

Alternate adjective - Occurring by turns; first one and then the other.

Short and alternate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short" instead an adjective "Alternate".

Short

Short adjective - Having relatively little height.

Alternate and short are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternate" instead an adjective "Short".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Alternate Continuity The short-lived musical is closer to the novel, but Saul is renamed Jinx, plus there is an alternate climax.
  • Stripperiffic Fanservice status, Ahri merely wears a short-but-not-that-short skirt and shows some cleavage…and her alternate skins are all less revealing.
    Source: Stripperiffic
  • Alternate History Wank In short, the point of divergence that created the alternate history has also created a "Republic Of Mary Sue" of one sort or another.
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