substitute
To use in place of something else, with the same function.
Example
“I had no shallots so I substituted onion.”
Other meanings
To use X in place of Y.
“I had to substitute new parts for the old ones.”
To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
“I had to substitute old parts with the new ones.”
Synonyms
- replace
- exchange
Related words
- bustitute
- intersubstitute
- resubstitute
- substitutability
- substitutable
- substitutee
- substituter
- substitutive
- substitutor
- bisubstituted
- chlorosubstituted
- cryosubstituted
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "substitutus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “substitute” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.