Alternative and Following

Alternative

Alternative adjective - Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities.

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Following and alternative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Following" instead an adjective "Alternative".

Following adjective - Being the one that comes immediately after another.

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Alternative and following are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternative" instead an adjective "Following".

Nearby Words: follow, follower, followed

good	good alternative	good following
reasonable	reasonable alternative	reasonable following
effective	effective alternative	effective following
actual	actual alternative	actual following
Other adjectives: real, great, main, decent, moral, scary.

Even though he goes via Heroic Sacrifice, it still counts as the villain had pushed him into a spot with no alternative, and was the first major "good guy" death (2nd following Hayate Gekko).

Source: Sacrificial Lion / Anime and Manga
He had no more hits after it, but has maintained a small following ever since, mainly in alternative country.

Source: Breakup Breakout
Maybe, following a path generally blinds one to other alternative paths

Source: Dark Messiah

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