either

Speech parts

1. either - Adverb

2. either - Pronoun

3. either - Conjunction

5. either - Determiner

Meaning

One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.

Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.

precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

likewise moreover secondly one also any each every neither whatever identically ane or that anyone
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Antonyms

however less better diverse counter nobody
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Phrases with the word

in either case either a or b either cash or debit card either gate these differences being such as either originally andon the ground of their etymology inhered in them either uppercase

Anagrams

Ethier theire

Examples

he isn't stupid, but he isn't exactly a genius either Source: Internet

I don't know either Source: Internet

if you don't order dessert I won't either Source: Internet

"89.7% of people who have been diagnosed with this virus have recovered either in the community or been successfully discharged from hospital. Source: Internet

A 2-1 win over second-placed Inverness, thanks to Louis Appere and Lawrence Shankland strikes either side of a Jordan White equaliser, took the Terrors a huge 21 points clear at the top of the second tier (see video below). Source: Internet

Abang warned that if Maina jumped bail in an unlikely event, the court might either order the remand of Ndume in a correctional centre or for the surety to forfeit the penal sum. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

eitchen midden Eitel eitelite either a or b either a or b but not both either a or b but not neither