Similar words
vielmehr
Close synonyms for "instead/rather"; vielmehr corrects a previous statement ("not X, rather Y"), stattdessen simply substitutes one thing for another.
Similar in other languages
French
plutôt
Close — instead relates to rather.
Practice
1 What does stattdessen mean?
instead
2 Fill the gap: Sie ging nicht ins Kino, ___ blieb sie zu Hause.
Full sentence: Sie ging nicht ins Kino, stattdessen blieb sie zu Hause. (She didn't go to the cinema; instead, she stayed home.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches stattdessen?
stattdessen: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.