One word substitute for “otherwise”.
Is there a substitute for “otherwise” or “otherwise” which can be used preceding an adjective?
To an even very, very poor student, going through a personal crisis, a university student sees his results deteriorate drastically.
Close ones are “under other circumstances” or “in other conditions” (Thesaurus ), but I’m looking for something that can precede the adjective “excellent”, and preferably one-word.
The reason is, these wordier options (that would go after “student”) seem to give a more negative impact when describing the student. The one word used before “excellent and confident” seems to have less negative impact.
EDIT: Im looking for something short and straightforward that touches the point as used in the sentence without the dragging negativity implied in the wordy options. How can you make a thought sound like one word? And @vancoder’s suggestion is an interesting option that uses a positive sounding word that would fit the context.
Ich mu00f6chte noch hinzufu00fcgen, that I wanted to use a different word because the sample sentence is not of my own words but I want to convey the same meaning.
If you can think of another word please share it!
Much appreciated you’re appreciated.
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I’m finding it difficult to come up with a direct substitute, because otherwise is very well suited to that sentence. Why is this sentence “in the English Language”? “I think some of the suggestions above are probably inferior to what you have suggested. What are some suggestions that convey a different meaning that may not be appropriate, but they may be helpful in some way.
typically
- In most cases; usually.
Ordinarily
most of the time; generally; normally;
to the usual extent; reasonably.
Both words convey a meaning of “almost always” rather than “under other circumstances”, so it becomes a question of whether that additional meaning is reasonably implied. I think that within context, it’s – you’re defining that ordinary/typical state (excellence) and then describing a situation that is atypical and out-of-the-ordinary and the impact it
has.
