Definitions for instead

instead in·stead

Spelling: [in-sted]
IPA: /ɪnˈstɛd/

Instead is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 321 anagrams from letters in instead (adeinst).

Definitions for instead

Idioms

  1. instead of, in place of; in lieu of:

adverb

  1. as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something:
  2. in preference; as a preferred or accepted alternative:

Origin of instead

1175-1225; Middle English; orig. phrase in stead in place

Examples for instead

instead, now we are building bonds with nations that once were our adversaries.

I wish my father had intrusted his money to you instead of to the superintendent.

It will only be me instead of him, and that's no difference; he belongs to me as much as I do to him.

instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.

But this year, instead of simply voting against Boehner on Tuesday, at least two members of the group are vying to replace him.

instead, spa hotels filled up with over 30,000 refugees from the war-troubled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience.

instead, it presents, what all too few of us to-day possess, a philosophy of life.

instead, I spend much of my time criticizing my fellow atheists.

That instead of running into the Oneida, the Oneida ran into him.

Word Value for instead
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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