What is another word for as a substitute?

Pronunciation: [az ɐ sˈʌbstɪtjˌuːt] (IPA)

The phrase "as a substitute" can be interchanged with a number of synonyms that convey similar meaning. For instance, "as a replacement" can indicate something taking the place of another thing, while "as an alternative" emphasizes the choice between two options. "In lieu of" often implies a situation where one option is not available, requiring a second choice to be made. Similarly, "instead of" emphasizes one option being favored over another. "In place of" is an interchangeable phrase that explicitly refers to an object or person being replaced. All of these synonyms help express the idea of something taking the place of something else.

What are the hypernyms for As a substitute?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for as a substitute?

As a substitute can be replaced by several antonyms such as authentic, genuine, original, primary, and real. The use of these words emphasizes the importance of the original or the real thing, rather than a mere replacement. Substitute implies that something is being used in place of another, whereas authentic, genuine, original, primary, and real suggest that the item being used is the actual thing. For instance, you would prefer to have your original painting displayed in your living room rather than a substitute copy, or you would choose authentic Italian cuisine over a substitute imitation. The use of these antonyms strengthens the importance of the actual item over a replacement.

What are the antonyms for As a substitute?

Famous quotes with As a substitute

  • No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
    Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
    Elsa Maxwell
  • Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society. We have seen all too clearly that there are mennow in power in this countrywho do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.
    Spiro Agnew
  • Freemasonry... has no pretension to assume a place among the religions of the world as a sectarian "system of faith and worship," in the sense in which we distinguish Christianity from Judaism, or Judaism from Mohammedanism. In this meaning of the word we do not and can not speak of the Masonic religion, nor say of a man that he is not a Christian, but a Freemason. Here it is that the opponents of Freemasonry have assumed mistaken ground in confounding the idea of a religious Institution with that of the Christian religion as a peculiar form of worship, and in supposing, because Freemasonry teaches religious truth, that it is offered as a substitute for Christian truth and Christian obligation.
    Albert Mackey
  • “Rebelling acts as a substitute for the more difficult process of struggling through to one’s own autonomy, to new beliefs,” writes Rollo May, as if one could struggle through to one’s own identity without rebelling.
    Russell Jacoby

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