otherways
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
otherways (not comparable)
- Otherwise; by another means; in other respects
- Synonyms: differently, contrarily
- (obsolete) Otherwise; in different circumstances.
- 1759, James Justice, The British Gardener's Calendar:
- […] you must now serve the upper part thereof with water as well as the under, and thereby keep the sap in equal motion, as well below as above ground; otherways the young branches of your trees will be parched, instead of being nourished […]
- (Scotland, obsolete) In a similar or comparable way; similarly.
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “otherways”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams edit
Scots edit
Adverb edit
otherways (not comparable)
- similarly, in a similar way
- otherwise; in other respects
- differently, contrarily
- otherwise, else