Adverse
['ædvɜːs] or [ædˈvɚs,ˈædˌvɚs]
Definition
(adj.) in an opposing direction; 'adverse currents'; 'a contrary wind' .
(adj.) contrary to your interests or welfare; 'adverse circumstances'; 'made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions' .
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Definition
(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
(a.) Opposite.
(a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
(v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Contrary, opposing, unpropitious, counteracting, conflicting, HEAD, not propitious.[2]. Hostile, inimical, antagonistic.[3]. Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Opposed_to, unlucky, hard, hostile, antagonistic, unpropitious, opposite,conflicting, contrary, unfavorable
ANT:Favorable, friendly, amicable, propitious, fortunate, lucky
Typist: Vern
Definition
adj. acting in a contrary direction (with to): opposed to: unfortunate: injurious.—adv. Ad′versely.—ns. Ad′verseness Advers′ity adverse circumstances: affliction: misfortune.
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Examples
- There had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The experience of civilized nations has hitherto been adverse to Socialism. Plato. The Republic.
- That adverse decision at St. Louis would never have been made if the court could have seen the men who swore for Goebel. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In general I am adverse to stone structures for this purpose unless thus boarded. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Thus prepared to expect adverse circumstances, she had acquired the firmness necessary for acting under them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This was the spirit in which the adverse accounts of Philip were written. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and feelings were alike adverse to it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- No race knows so well as thine own tribes how to submit to the time, and so to trim their bark as to make advantage even of an adverse wind. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She listened eagerly to him, yet tantalized herself by giving to his words a meaning foreign to their true interpretation, and adverse to her hopes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But adverse winds detain me on shore; like Ulysses, I sit at the water's edge and weep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then he had been tried by prosperity as well as adverse fortune, and had passed unhurt through the perils of both. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But also he may sometimes be stirred by adverse circumstances to such a degree that he rises up against them and reforms them. Plato. The Republic.
- Always alike, and theory and practice always adverse! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He looks like a person who would enjoy battling with every adverse thing he could meet with--enemies, winds, or circumstances. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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