Alternative and Default

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Alternative noun - The power, right, or opportunity to choose.

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Default and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Default" with "Alternative", this nouns are similar.

Default noun - An option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified.

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Alternative and default are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead a noun "Default".

Nearby Words: defaulter, defaulting, defaulted

preferred	preferred alternative	preferred default
good	good alternative	good default
best	best alternative	best default
common	common alternative	common default
Other adjectives: real, great, evil, new, possible, generic.

The default tilesets in the RPG Maker are designed for making RPGs in this setting, although RPG Maker VX supplied an alternative tileset catering to games set 20 Minutes into the Future.

Source: Medieval European Fantasy
Fourth Edition actually makes point-buy the default, though the Player's Handbook mentions rolling as an alternative (if one slightly slanted to produce worse stats than one could buy, on average).

Source: Honest Rolls Character
This was the default state in monarchies for quite a while, even and perhaps especially in Europe (with a dubious long-running alternative being in the Germanies, due to the complicated political organization of the Holy Roman Empire).

Source: The Theocracy

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