INSTEAD | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of instead in English insteadadverb uk /ɪnˈsted/ us /ɪnˈsted/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 in place of someone or something else: There's no coffee - would you like a cup of tea instead? Compare in lieu (of) formal alternatively

• 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?

Replacing and exchanging

• alternate
• alternatively
• bargain
• bargain something away phrasal verb
• change over phrasal verb
• compensation
• if I were you idiom
• in exchange for something
• in the name of something idiom
• insert
• instantiation
• redeem
• someone's answer to someone/something idiom
• spell
• stead
• step
• step into someone's shoes idiom
• step into the breach idiom
• sub out something phrasal verb
• substitute

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instead | American Dictionary

insteadadverb [ not gradable ] us /ɪnˈsted/ Add to word list Add to word list 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

instead Instead, they appeared on occasion to recompute the phonetic elements, producing a new erroneous version. From the Cambridge English Corpus The gender switch produces humor, but it does not disrupt or reconfigure gender relations or hierarchies; instead, it temporarily reverses them. From the Cambridge English Corpus One possible explanation for the differing results may have to do with the fact that we were requesting summary instead of individual patient data. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, important individuals played essential roles, and their talent and authority was reported to be crucial to the building's success. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, comanagement, where both state and users have relative roles to play, has been considered. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, we were told to put our faith in the market. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, however, the author seems to have gone out of his way to avoid telling any such story. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, the story is of group elites and long-term trends, with a different focus and different tempo. From the Cambridge English Corpus The approach towards accurate functionals has instead been to study model systems for which very accurate functionals can be derived. From the Cambridge English Corpus 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. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, he was saying that the structural properties of the different languages have this effect. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, instead of being a mere system description, an appropriately constructed dynamic model can greatly facilitate and guide the control design. From the Cambridge English Corpus This should rather have strengthened their original support for the tax, instead of turning them against it. From the Cambridge English Corpus We use an equivalence on trees instead of worrying about representation. From the Cambridge English Corpus Instead, the treatise provides a manual for the design of optimal interest rate rules. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of instead?

Translations of instead

in Chinese (Traditional) 作為替代… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 作为替代… See more in Spanish en vez de eso, en su lugar, en lugar de… See more in Portuguese em vez disso, em vez (de)… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian च्या ऐवजी… See more その代わりに, 代（か）わりに… See more ...ın/in yerine, yerine… See more plutôt, à la place… See more en lloc d’això… See more in plaats ervan… See more ஒருவரின் இடத்தில் மற்றொருவர் அல்லது ஏதோ ஒன்று… See more (व्यक्ति या वस्तु) के बदले… See more _ના બદલે… See more i stedet… See more i stället… See more sebagai ganti… See more stattdessen… See more i stedet… See more بجائے… See more замість кого, чого… See more ఒక వ్యక్తి లేక ఒక వస్తువు స్థానంలో… See more পরিবর্তে, বদলে… See more místo toho… See more sebagai gantinya… See more แทน… See more thay vì… See more zamiast (tego), w zamian… See more -대신에… See more invece, al posto di, piuttosto… See more Need a translator?

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