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/ɛls/ · adjective
(postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items..
The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Prospero: Thou hast done well, fine Ariel. Follow me; Hark what thou else shalt do me.
As with most else in society, early Americans believed that health and healing were in God's hand.
How else (= in what other way) can it be done?
I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?
The crust of ice on the else rippling brook was so transparent, and so thin in texture, that the lively water might of its own free will have stopped—in Tom’s glad mind it had—to look upon the lovely morning.
Use else when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Else means (postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items..
Common synonyms include otherwise, additional, other.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
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