Meaning of instead in English

instead

adverb

/ɪnˈsted/ us

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in place of someone or something else:

There's no coffee - would you like a cup of tea instead?

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in lieu (of) formal

alternatively

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I'm going to drop yoga and do aerobics instead.
How on earth could they knock down a lovely old building like that and put a car park there instead?

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(Definition of instead from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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instead

adverb [ not gradable ]

/ɪnˈsted/

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rather than; as an alternative:

If we don’t go to Europe this summer, where would you like to go instead (= what other place would you like to go)?

We went by train instead of by car.

(Definition of instead from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of instead

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Instead, they appeared on occasion to recompute the phonetic elements, producing a new erroneous version.

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The gender switch produces humor, but it does not disrupt or reconfigure gender relations or hierarchies; instead, it temporarily reverses them.

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One possible explanation for the differing results may have to do with the fact that we were requesting summary instead of individual patient data.

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Instead, important individuals played essential roles, and their talent and authority was reported to be crucial to the building's success.

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Instead, comanagement, where both state and users have relative roles to play, has been considered.

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Instead, we were told to put our faith in the market.

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Instead, however, the author seems to have gone out of his way to avoid telling any such story.

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Instead, the story is of group elites and long-term trends, with a different focus and different tempo.

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The approach towards accurate functionals has instead been to study model systems for which very accurate functionals can be derived.

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A third weakness in presentation is that information is sometimes given diffusely instead of in one section or chapter, thereby reducing effective communication of ideas.

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Instead, he was saying that the structural properties of the different languages have this effect.

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Thus, instead of being a mere system description, an appropriately constructed dynamic model can greatly facilitate and guide the control design.

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This should rather have strengthened their original support for the tax, instead of turning them against it.

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We use an equivalence on trees instead of worrying about representation.

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Instead, the treatise provides a manual for the design of optimal interest rate rules.

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作為替代…

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