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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
otherwise
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pretend otherwise
▪ I can’t marry her and to pretend otherwise would be wrong.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
decide
▪ However, the morning Mass had been well attended and the members of the parish had decided otherwise.
▪ Enough of them eventually drop out, in fact, to disguise the otherwise decided statistical superiority of female performance in school.
▪ Given the statutory provisions, it is difficult to see how the court could have decided otherwise.
▪ Generations of scholars have decided otherwise.
▪ Lawrence subsequently decided otherwise, as he was entitled to do.
▪ If the federal court decides otherwise, then we have a different standard.
▪ It thereby becomes inviolate until an equally vast majority decides otherwise.
▪ We had to cross the mountains, camp near a reservoir, then head home - but fate had decided otherwise.
do
▪ It was indelicate to do otherwise.
▪ It would be morally wrong to do otherwise.
▪ No P D James character would dare do otherwise.
▪ To do otherwise would be needlessly cruel.
▪ To do otherwise is simply scientifically incautious.
▪ The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise.
▪ Why otherwise does it direct the judges to take an oath to support it?
know
▪ We knew otherwise - and told you so on October 26, 1990.
▪ The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise.
▪ This is otherwise known as a fiduciary relationship.
▪ Area 17, for example, is otherwise known as the primary visual area.
▪ Osteoporosis Otherwise known as brittle bone disease, osteoporosis is a major cause of disability and premature death.
▪ The best explanation for this is the so-called rebound effect, otherwise known as acute tolerance.
▪ During that pilgrimage, they lived in tents and booths, otherwise known as sukkot.
pretend
▪ Eleanor was wrong to try and pretend otherwise.
▪ It makes people feel better to pretend otherwise.
▪ The introduction of council tax is going to hurt an awful lot of people and there is no point in pretending otherwise.
▪ Nevertheless they were two real victories, and it is childish of Bush's opponents to pretend otherwise.
▪ Though she'd never been much of a nurse and it was hypocritical to pretend otherwise.
▪ Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, the man was no hick care-taker.
▪ But if you are well known, it seems foolish to pretend otherwise.
▪ I knew at once that something was different, why pretend otherwise?
prove
▪ How does the incumbent house prove otherwise?
▪ It is a matter for further investigation, but if it looks wrong, it is wrong until proved otherwise.
▪ A Limba teacher is too often believed incompetent by his Susu or Koranko students until he proves otherwise.
▪ The burden was on the state to prove otherwise.
▪ Woodhead spent three years attempting to prove otherwise.
▪ It was a problem waiting to happen, the most identifiable flaw on a team that wanted to prove otherwise.
state
▪ Unless stated otherwise, you have to assume all text, graphics, scripts, programs and applets are copyright.
▪ All pictures by the author unless stated otherwise.
▪ Unless stated otherwise, all statutory references are to the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.
▪ The point is, mathematical notation gives us complete liberty, unless it explicitly states otherwise.
▪ All items are available from good toy shops, unless stated otherwise.
▪ Edges are neatened and pressed open unless stated otherwise.
▪ In the rest of this factsheet, the community charge referred to is the personal community charge unless stated otherwise.
suggest
▪ It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
▪ One might think that the business interests would have more sway, but the results suggest otherwise.
▪ The example of Leavis and Scrutiny may suggest otherwise.
▪ But the 57 Mature Harappan graves from the R37 cemetery at Harappa suggest otherwise.
▪ Experience with other fund management takeovers would however tend to suggest otherwise.
▪ The Pep Squad only pretends to be-and woe to any member who might dare to suggest otherwise.
▪ The stopwatch may suggest otherwise but so what.
▪ This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations, but what evidence there is suggests otherwise.
think
▪ Many might seek to use the asylum route and, indeed, it would be naive to think otherwise.
▪ But he knew that people thought otherwise, and that their false impression was his own fault.
▪ People think otherwise, surely, from politicians: more simply, about horror, fear, survival?
▪ To think otherwise, it seems, is to reveal oneself as an ignoramus who does not know enough characters.
▪ If Anya thinks otherwise, she has no future at Mephistco.
▪ But I wanted to have it on the record, in case any of you think otherwise.
▪ Donald thinks otherwise - and the upshot may be that he will sue.
▪ No one at Exeter, it is hard to think otherwise, ever wanted for anything.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be otherwise engaged
▪ Duffy, who was otherwise engaged, has been replaced by another actor.
▪ The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.
▪ The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.
▪ This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.
know different/otherwise
▪ Christopher would tell me all sorts of things I would never know otherwise.
▪ If you know different contact: who would like to get this year's books completed.
▪ Just another wench, he told himself angrily, but deep down he knew different.
▪ Now, presumably, they know different.
▪ The answer is probably no - but do you know otherwise?
▪ The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise.
▪ We knew otherwise - and told you so on October 26, 1990.
▪ We teach them, you know different things.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An inspection of the building revealed faults that might otherwise have been overlooked.
▪ I'm glad you told me about the show being cancelled. Otherwise I'd have travelled all the way to Glasgow for nothing.
▪ It can't have been anything important, otherwise she'd have called back.
▪ She must have missed the train, otherwise she'd be here by now.
▪ Stir the sauce until it cools, otherwise it will be lumpy.
▪ The police stressed that Straskow would be considered innocent until proved otherwise.
▪ The situation was very serious indeed, even if the government tried to pretend otherwise.
▪ You should type it; otherwise, they won't be able to read it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But try to persuade him otherwise.
▪ It is equally vital that both should be mentioned, otherwise a client, particularly a buyer, could be seriously misled.
▪ One third of the doctors believed otherwise.
▪ Section references below are to the Companies Act 1985 unless otherwise indicated.
▪ She did not rant or rave or otherwise make a spectacle of herself.
▪ Similarly, an increase in the supply of money will have real output effects whether it is anticipated or otherwise.
▪ Unless otherwise specified, all fields have a maximum length of 20 characters, including colons, square brackets, etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Otherwise

Otherwise \Oth"er*wise`\, adv. [Other + wise manner.]

  1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
    --Chaucer.

    Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise.
    --Addison.

  2. In other respects.

    It is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society.
    --Hooker.

  3. In different circumstances; under other conditions; as, I am engaged, otherwise I would accept.

    Note: Otherwise, like so and thus, may be used as a substitute for the opposite of a previous adjective, noun, etc.

    Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me.
    --2 Cor. xi. 16.

    Her eyebrows . . . rather full than otherwise.
    --Fielding.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
otherwise

contracted from Old English phrase on oðre wisan "in the other manner" (see other + wise (n.)), which in Middle English became oþre wise, and mid-14c. oþerwise. As an adjective from c.1400.

Wiktionary
otherwise

a. Other than supposed; different. adv. 1 (lb en manner) Differently, in another way. 2 (lb en conjunctive) In different circumstances; or else.

WordNet
otherwise

  1. adj. other than as supposed or expected; "the outcome was otherwise"

  2. adv. in other respects or ways; "he is otherwise normal"; "the funds are not otherwise available"; "an otherwise hopeless situation"

  3. in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise" [syn: differently]

Wikipedia
Otherwise

Otherwise may refer to:

  • Otherwise (band), a rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada
  • E's Otherwise, 2003 anime television series adaptation of E's
Otherwise (band)

Otherwise is an American Hard rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. They have released two full-length albums on the independent label Century Media Records, titled True Love Never Dies (2012) and Peace At All Costs (2014). Previous to signing their record deal with Century Media, as an unsigned band they released one self-titled full-length album "Otherwise" (2006) and one EP titled "Some Kind of Alchemy" (2009).

Usage examples of "otherwise".

The English, despite the fact that they are in the doctrine of faith alone, nevertheless in the exhortation to the Holy Communion openly teach self-examination, acknowledgment, confession of sins, penitence and renewal of life, and warn those who do not do these things with the words that otherwise the devil will enter into them as he did into Judas, fill them with all iniquity, and destroy both body and soul.

The fear that nicotine addiction engenders can cause otherwise pleasant and compassionate people to act like barbarians.

But she did know, and Addis knew that she did, but they pretended otherwise.

This letter, however, gives the adolescent power over a proud and otherwise inaccessible adult woman, whom both he and his father are in love with.

I was especially happy whenever I was sent afield to take the place of some peasant shepherd who was ill or drunk or otherwise incapacitated, for I enjoyed being by myself in the green pastures, and the herding of sheep is no backbreaking job.

The acute ailment reproduced itself in her daughter in spite of an otherwise vigorous constitution.

In this she rather differed from Alastor, of whom otherwise she was the female counterpart.

Most of this illegal income came from selling promotional copies of the Concert for Bangla Desh album, taking money which would have otherwise gone to the charity if those albums had been bought through normal channels.

At age sixteen, I developed alopecia areata, a condition that causes patches of baldness in an otherwise healthy head of hair.

Otherwise I could sign a contract and then be held to ransom by the aluminium manufacturers.

The man had only to scan her plain attire to know she was not the kind of woman who amassed ornaments, costly or otherwise.

Cloud snorted and the other horses acted bothered, but the ambient was otherwise quiet, and Cloud settled to being brushed again, rocking gently to the strong strokes Danny put into it.

The solution offered by Amel is not to oppose war but to otherwise channel the energies that give rise to it and educate those people who might become its focus.

All experiments of any kin, upon other adults, whether patients or inmates of public institutions or otherwise, if made without direct ameliorative purpose and the intelligent personal consent of the person who is the MATERIAL for the research.

An amine solution pump came on, a vent fan winding up in the space, whirring quietly in the otherwise church like quiet.