 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adverse
adjective
1: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse
circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the
most untoward conditions" [syn: {harmful}, {inauspicious},
{untoward}]
2: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary
wind" [syn: {contrary}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adverse \Ad"verse\, adjective [OE. advers, OF. avers, advers, fr. L.
adversus, p. p. advertere to turn to. See {Advert}.]
1. Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed;
contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an
adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
2. Opposite. ''Calpe's adverse height.'' --Byron.
3. In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious;
contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous;
afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse
circumstances, things adverse.
Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as
well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
--Southey.
{Adverse possession} (Law), a possession of real property
avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another
person. --Abbott.
Syn: Averse; reluctant; unwilling. See {Averse}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adverse \Ad*verse"\, verb (used with an object) [L. adversari: cf. OF. averser.]
To oppose; to resist. [Obs.] --Gower.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "adverse":
adversary, adversative, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti,
antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, balancing,
clashing, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting,
contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious,
contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractive,
counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, cross,
dead against, deleterious, detrimental, difficult, disaccordant,
disadvantageous, discordant, discrepant, dissentient, enemy,
eyeball to eyeball, fractious, hard, harmful, hostile, hurtful,
impeding, in opposition, inconsistent, inimical, injurious,
inverse, miserable, negative, noncooperative, not easy, obstinate,
obstructive, obverse, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite,
oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, overthwart, perverse,
prejudicial, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, reverse,
rigorous, rival, sinister, squared off, stressful, troublesome,
troublous, trying, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly,
unpropitious, unsatisfactory, untoward, wretched
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