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English
Etymology
From other + ways.
Adverb
otherways (not comparable)
- Otherwise; by another means; in other respects
- Synonyms: differently, contrarily
- (obsolete) Otherwise; in different circumstances.
1759, James Justice, The British Gardener's Calendar:[…] you must now serve the upper part thereof with water as well as the under, and thereby keep the sap in equal motion, as well below as above ground; otherways the young branches of your trees will be parched, instead of being nourished […]
- (Scotland, obsolete) In a similar or comparable way; similarly.
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Scots
Adverb
otherways (not comparable)
- similarly, in a similar way
- otherwise; in other respects
- differently, contrarily
- otherwise, else