in other words

1. 1.

   otherwise stated

   “in other words, we are broke”

   Synonymsput differently

Questions about in other words

What does in other words mean?

in other words means "otherwise stated".

What is another word for in other words?

Close synonyms include put differently. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in other words a common word?

in other words is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.