or rather

Synonyms

or instead on the contrary nay

Examples

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. Florence Nightingale

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom. Pierre Corneille

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. Henri Matisse

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself. Herbert Marcuse

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart. Charles Lamb

Words in the phrase

or rather

Close letter words and terms

or only or operation or privilege or similar things or so or some such