adjective
definition
Other than supposed; different.
example
He said he didn’t do it, but the evidence was otherwise.
adverb
definition
(manner) Differently, in another way.
example
Could I do otherwise than smile?.
definition
In different circumstances; or else.
example
I’m not well today, otherwise I would have helped. You have to open your umbrella, otherwise you'll get wet.
definition
In all other respects.
example
He lost his temper once in a while. Otherwise he behaved rationally.
Examples of otherwise in a Sentence
The shopping trip was exciting because it was so close to Christmas, but otherwise uneventful.
The accent says otherwise, but I was born in New York.
Surely you have time off as well, otherwise, how would you have time to come all the way out here.
She has the power of ancient healers to return to life that which otherwise wouldn't live.
Otherwise, it's just as well we never see each other again.
Otherwise, she drew and painted.
Jade stood before her, blood spattered across his otherwise clean clothes.
It had been originally designed as a maid's quarters and it was the last room they rented when Bird Song was otherwise booked.
His bond to Katie tempered what was otherwise a disaster of epic proportions.
Otherwise, he'd never be able to keep it all straight!
Otherwise, why would he have gone to college?
It puts to rest many questions which he would otherwise be taxed to answer; while the only new question which it puts is the hard but superfluous one, how to spend it.
Her eyes were bloodshot but otherwise she looked pale lying on the sheets like a limp doll.
He's unstoppable otherwise, she explained.
Otherwise, she appeared healthy.
To think otherwise would have been intolerable.
Otherwise her expression might have revealed her torrid thoughts.
She could paint anywhere, and her life was otherwise so unfulfilling, Evelyn didn't know how she could stand it.
Otherwise, I'll have to carry you down to the car.
His faint smile said otherwise.
The paperwork otherwise had nothing to do with Toby or their accusation that she abandoned her kid on the Metro.
The place of publication, unless otherwise stated, is London.
Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women.
Tiyan will not survive otherwise.
I've never heard otherwise, but I've been here for a long time.
Otherwise, you go numb and spend your eternity that way.
Jonny's texts, however, told her otherwise.
He still hoped she would awake in the morning thinking she had undressed herself and save them both the embarrassment that would otherwise follow.
Because her hands were otherwise occupied, she left it there.
Otherwise Alex would insist it was an infection or something.
It's not something I'd ask of you otherwise.
He stared at the flowers, a sign of disorder in his otherwise sterile condo.
Otherwise Berthollet's position would have been a much stronger one, and the atomic theory might have had to wait a long while for acceptance.
The light actually emitted laterally is thus the same as would be caused by forces exactly the opposite of these acting on the medium otherwise free from disturbance, and it only remains to see what the effect of such force would be.
By his rigorous imposts he alienated the favour of his subjects, and especially of the clergy, whom he otherwise sought to control firmly.
Otherwise we may assume no disturbing alteration has taken place for more than 2000 years in its position and extent.
He was provost of Edinburgh in 1437, and was otherwise distinguished.
The following tables, showing the growth of the largest towns in France, are drawn up on the basis of the fourth classification, which is used throughout this work in the articles on French towns, except where otherwise stated.
Men who, otherwise suitable, have some slight infirmity are drafted into the non-combatant branches.
Otherwise the Californian flora is entirely deficient in the characteristic features of that of eastern North America.
Others are deprived of a part of their more volatile constituents by spontaneous evaporation, or by distillation, in vacuo or otherwise, at the lowest possible temperature.
At the time of the Austrian annexation in 1908, the only remaining token of Ottoman suzerainty was that the foreign consuls received their exequatur from Turkey, instead of Austria; otherwise the government of the country was conducted in the name of the Austrian emperor, through the imperial minister of finance at Vienna, who controlled the civil service for the occupied territory.
The palpi vary in form and in the number of their component segments, and the proboscis, though usually straight, may be curved (as in Megarhinus) or otherwise modified in shape.
The commodities otherwise mostly dealt in are opium, tea, rice, oil, raw cotton, fish and silk.
The most natural explanation is that Aryans had made their way into the highlands east of Assyria, and thence bands had penetrated into Mesopotamia, peacefully or otherwise, and then, like the Turks in the days of the Caliphate, founded dynasties.
Several parallel chains of hills, reaching an extreme height of 3800 ft., cross the district; otherwise it is a plain.
He entered Jenn's mind, aware she couldn't talk to him with the cuff otherwise.
He couldn't believe otherwise, not after all he'd been through to keep her.
Sami grimaced, as if annoyed rather than in pain, but otherwise ignored the arrows jutting from his back.
The creature tells me otherwise and cheers me on whenever I take the head of another cursed barbarian.