adv.
Function: adverb
Date: 13th century
1 : in a different way or manner <glossed over or otherwise handled ― Playboy >
2 : in different circumstances <might otherwise have left>
3 : in other respects <an otherwise flimsy farce ― Current Biog. >
4 : if not <do what I tell you, otherwise you'll be sorry>
5 : NOT ― paired with an adjective, adverb, noun, or verb to indicate its contrary or to suggest an indefinite alternative <people whose deeds, admirable or otherwise ― John Fischer> <almost thirty thousand women, Irish and otherwise ― J. M. Burns> <his opinion as to the success or otherwise of it ― Australian Dict. of Biog. >