Adverse

Definitions: Adverse

Adverse

Adjective

1. Contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions".

2. In an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adverse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Adverse

Adversity

Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.

Adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.

Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.

Dislike

Adjective: disliking; Verb: averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy.

Necessity

Necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion; subjection; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be.

Opponent

Noun: opponent, antagonist, adversary; adverse party, opposition; enemy; the other side; assailant.

Opposition

Adjective: opposing, opposed;Verb: adverse, antagonistic; contrary; at variance; at issue, at war with.

Unwillingness

Adjective: unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse; (opposed); laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent; scrupulous; squeamish; (fastidious); repugnant; (dislike); restiff, restive; demurring; Verb: unconsenting; (refusing); involuntary.

Crosswords: Adverse

French (adverse).

He has a funny habit of shedding his cells and replacing them with polarized silicon which gives him a prolonged resistance to adverse environmental conditions. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

Anthony Adverse (1936)

Adverse Possession (1998)

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Books

• Adverse Drug Reactions in Dentistry (Oxford Medical Publications) (reference)

• Adverse Reactions to Cosmetics (reference)

• Adverse Report (Soundings/5 Audio Cassettes) [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

• Clin-Alert 2001: A Quick Reference to Adverse Clinical Events (reference)

• Handbook of Adverse Drug Interactions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Adverse Drug Interactions Program - Cd-rom (reference)

• Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin - Italian Ed (reference)

• Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin (reference)

• Excerpta Medica : Adverse Reactions Titles - Sec 38 (reference)

• Medical Letter On Drugs & Therapeutics C-w Adverse Drug Reac (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Anthony Adverse (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Adverse Reaction (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Franklin HAD-500222HSFP Medical Letter's Handbook of Adverse Drug (reference)

• Franklin The Medical Letter's Handbook of Adverse Drug Interaction Springboard Module (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Figure 15. Zacharias ethmophore plankton filter devised by Otto Zacharias in 1907. Top: view of the assembled apparatus. Bottom: internal speed reduction valve. This instrument was devised to collect plankton under adverse meteorolog ical conditions where normal net-towing operations became impossible. This inst rument was first used in a lake, but then in the Mediterranean and Tyrhennian.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

In spite of adverse winds I'll just keep at it.Credit: Library of Congress.

General Pershing cables "No other organization since the world began has ever done such great constructive work with the efficiency, dispatch and understanding, often under adverse circumstances, than has been done in France by American Red Cross in the l.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

No other adverse effects have been reported. (references)

A number of adverse events have been recognized. (references)

Many antimigraine drugs can have adverse side effects. (references)

Business

The applicant covers insurance payments for risks of adverse effects of the clinical tests on test participants. (references)

Referral by two adverse parties of a dispute to the center entails the parties acceptance of the finality of the centers decision. (references)

Another factor adverse to local suppliers is that they offer limited financing; with terms up to five years and at rates of over ten percent. (references)

Children

Mongolia

Increased stress on the family structure and throughout society has had adverse effects on many children, and the Government has been unable to keep pace with the educational, health, and social needs of the most rapidly growing segment of its population, although it is committed to children's rights and welfare in principle. (references)

Civil Liberties

Seychelles

The official media adhered closely to the Government's position on policy issues and gave the opposition and news adverse to the Government only limited attention. (references)

Angola

The Government arbitrarily limits organized activities deemed adverse to its interests, by refusing to grant licenses and through other means, such as police or official harassment. (references)

Economic History

Italy

A large percentage of medical equipment in use is obsolete, with potentially adverse effects on patients. (references)

Moldova

Adverse weather conditions have been compounded by a shortage of inputs and raw materials, which led to lower yields. (references)

Jamaica

Agricultural production and earnings have declined in recent years, due to lower international prices and adverse weather conditions. (references)

Human Rights

Laos

Both defendants and prosecutors have the right to appeal an adverse verdict. (references)

Bolivia

Because of adverse wind conditions, the security forces fired warning shots into the air instead of tear gas. (references)

Italy

In November 2000, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) handed down 233 adverse judgments against the country; this was more than half of the 421 verdicts issued during the year by the Courts. (references)

Indigenous People

Philippines

Other measures have affected indigenous communities in adverse ways. (references)

Political Economy

INDIA

India's patent protection is weak and has especially adverse effects on US pharmaceutical and chemical firms. (references)

POLAND

Phytosanitary standards on weed seeds have had a major adverse impact on the ability of U.S. farmers to export grains to Poland. (references)

Trade

Philippines

External auditors are required to bring to the attention of the Bangko Sentral any adverse audit findings. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

The parliamentary legal committee issued an adverse report on the bill, calling many of its provisions unconstitutional. (references)

Panama

Workers have complained of sterility and more recently of adverse skin conditions as a result of exposure to the chemicals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "adverse": adverse attitude ♦ adverse balance ♦ adverse balance of trade ♦ adverse circumstances ♦ adverse criticism ♦ Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems ♦ adverse effect ♦ adverse judgement ♦ adverse necessity ♦ Adverse possession ♦ adverse report ♦ adverse winds ♦ adverse witness ♦ be adverse to ♦ medical adverse drug reaction message. Additional references.

Containing "adverse": No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level.

Afrikaan

vyandelik (hostile), teenoorgesteld (alien, contrary, opposite, reverse, reversed). (various references)

Albanian

armiqësor (antagonistic, antisocial, at sword's points, chill, chilly, enemy, enemy's, forbidding, hostile, inimical, opponent, subversive, unfriendly), i pafavorshëm (contrary, disadvantageous, hostile, low, unfavorable, unfavourable, untoward), i kundërt (antagonistic, backward, contrariety, contrary, converse, counter, cross, dissonant, divergent, negative, opposed, opposite, polar, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مناوئ, ‏متعسر, ‏متجه نحو الجذع, ‏معاكس (contrary, counter, counteractive, cross, opposite, untoward), ‏مائج (wavy), ‏وخيم (pernicious), ‏عكسي (counter, inverse, reciprocal, retrograde, reverse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срещуположен (opponent, opposite), вреден (bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial), враждебен (aggressive, hostile, ill, inimical, irreconcilable, opponent, opposing, rancorous, sullen, unfriendly), насрещен (counter, cross, crosswind, foul, head, oncoming, opposite, unfavorable, unfavourable), противен (abhorrent, abominable, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

有害 (Baneful, Deleterious, harmful, injurious, Pernicious). (various references)

Czech

opaèný (contrary, converse, counter, inverse, opposite, reverse), nepříznivý (contrary, inauspicious, inimical, unfavorable, unfavourable), nepřátelský (enemy's, hostile, inimical, unfriendly). (various references)

Danish

skadelig (deleterious, detrimental, harmful, noxious). (various references)

Dutch

nadelig (detrimental, detrimentally, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, harmful, prejudicial, prejudicially). (various references)

Farsi 

مغایر (Alien, Anomalous, Discordant, Offbeat, Variant), مضر (Bad, Baneful, Derogatory, Evil, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Injurious, Insanitary, Nocuous, Noxious, Obnoxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), مخالف (Adversary, Against, Alien, Antagonist, Averse, Con, Contrary, Converse, Defiant, Dissenter, Foe, Inadvisable, Irreconcilable, No, Opponent, Reluctance, Repugnant, Unfavorable, With), ناسازگار (Alien, Discordant, Irreconcilable), روبرو (Opposite). (various references)

Finnish

nurja (wrong). (various references)

French

adverse, opposé, nuisible, nocif, négatif, hostile, ennemi (adversary), defavorable, contradictoire. (various references)

Frisian

fijannich (hostile). (various references)

German

widrig (unfavorable, unfavourable), ungünstig (awkward, awkwardly, disadvantageous, expensive, inauspicious, inconvenient, inconveniently, unfavorable, unfavorably, unfavourable, unfavourably, unflattering, unfortunate, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward), feindlich (adversely, antagonistic, enemy, hostile, inimical, inimically, opposing). (various references)

Greek 

ενάντιοσ (con, contrary, cross, repugnant), αντίθετοσ (absonant, contrary, contrasting, jarring, opposed, opposite), δυσμενήσ (ill-favored, ill-favoured, malign, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, unpropitious). (various references)

Hebrew 

שלילי (negative, unfavorable), � �'�"י (contradictory, contrary, counter-, opposite). (various references)

Hungarian

kedvezőtlen (hard, inimical, kick in the pants, unfavorable, unflattering), ellentétes (adversary, adversative, antagonistic, antithetic, antithetical, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, converse, counteractive, cross, inverse, jarring, obverse, opposed, opposite, retrograde, reverse, to hunt counter), ellenséges (adversary, antagonistic, enemy, hostile, inimical, malignant). (various references)

Icelandic

andstæður (alien, contrary, opposite), mótstæður (alien, contrary, opposite), gallaður (detrimental). (various references)

Indonesian

merugikan (harm, inflict a financial loss), bermusuhan (antagonistic, hostile). (various references)

Italian

nocivo (harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, noisome, noxious). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

辛い (harsh, heart-breaking, hot, painful, salty, tough), 逆行 (go backward, retrograde), 疎ましい (disagreeable, unpleasant, unsympathetic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎゃっ�"う (backlighting, go backward, retrograde), うとましい (disagreeable, unpleasant, unsympathetic), からい (cyclonic thunder-storm, harsh, hot, salty, tough). (various references)

Korean 

불리한 (Disadvantageous, inimical). (various references)

Manx

noidagh (antagonistic, hostile, inimical), meefoayroil (unfavourable). (various references)

Norwegian

ufordelaktig (detrimental, disadvantageous), motsatt (alien, contrary, opposite). (various references)

Papiamen

kontrario (alien, contrary), kontrali (alien, contrary), desbentahoso (detrimental). (various references)

Pig Latin

adverseay

Polish

przeciwny (alien, contrary, opposite). (various references)

Portuguese

prejudicial (bad, baneful, deteriorative, detrimental, detrimentally, harmful, hurtful, ill feeling, inimical, injurious, nod, pestiferous, prejudicial, ruinous, wrongful). (various references)

Romanian

advers (counter), ostil (alien, hostile, ill, opponent, repugnant, repulsive), opus (antipathic, converse, counter, cross, opponent, opposed, opposite, opus, reverse), nefavorabil (bad, disadvantageous, foul, ill disposed, ill-affected, ill-omened, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, unpropitious), contrar (against, antipathic, bad, contrarily, contrary, converse, counter, foul, opponent, opposed, opposite, retrograde, reverse). (various references)

Russian 

неблагоприятный (baffling, contrary, disadvantageous, inauspicious, inimical, none to bright, none too bright, sinister, unauspicious, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, unpropitious, untoward, worst case, worst-case). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suprotan (adversative, contrary, converse, counter, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, reverse, unalike, unfavorable, unfavourable), neprijateljski (enemy, hostile, ill, inimical, unfriendly), štetan (bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial). (various references)

Spanish

contrario (abhorrent, antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, contrarian, contrary, counter, counteractive, enemy, opponent, oppose, opposite, reverse, value manager), adverso (hostile, jarring, opposite, perverse, untoward). (various references)

Swedish

fientlig (antagonistic, enemy, hostile, inimical). (various references)

Turkish

aleyhte (against, con, disadvantageous), aksi (awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded), zıt (anti-, antipole, antithetic, antithetical, athwart, conflicting, converse, counter, diametrical, jarring, negative, opponent, opposed, opposite, polar, reverse), ters (acrimonious, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, snuffy, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), karşıt (anti-, antipathetic, antipathetical, antithetic, antithetical, athwart, contra, contra-, contradictory, contrary, converse, cross, inimical, jarring, objector, opponent, opposed, opposite, reciprocal, reciprocating, reverse). (various references)

Ukranian 

розташований навпроти (opposite), шкідливий (bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), ворожий (antagonistic, antagonistical, hostile, inimical, opponent, opposed, wither), несприятливий (bad, baffling, contrary, cross, impervious, inauspicious, non-contributory, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, untoward), протилежний (alien from, contrary, converse, counter, opponent, opposite, otherways, otherwise, reverse). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thù địch (enemy), nghịch lại, chống đối bất lợi, có hại ngược bên kia, đối diện, đối địch (rival). (various references)

Welsh

adfydus (miserable), gwrthwynebus, gelynol (averse, hostile), croes (contrary, cross, transept). (various references)

adversarii, adversariis, adversario, adversariorum, adversarios, adversarium, adversarius, adversus, contraria, contrariae, contrarias, contrarii, contrario, contrarios, contrarium, contrarius, hosticus, hostifer, hostilis, sinistra, sinistram, sinistris, sinistro, sinistrum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adverse": adversely, adverseness, adversenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adverse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adiverse, Adsersen, advase, adver, adverbe, advers, Adversane, adversay, adversus, adverti, adverve, Ardvreck, Aversa, satversme. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: evaders.

-1 letter: averse, deaves, erased, evader, evades, reaved, reaves, reseda, seared, served, versed.

-2 letters: aedes, avers, dares, dears, deave, deers, devas, drave, drees, eared, eased, eaved, eaves, erase, evade, rased, raved, raves, reads, reave, redes, reeds, saree, saved, saver, seder, sered, serve, sever, veers, verse.

-3 letters: ares, arse, aver, aves, dare, dear, deer, dees, dere, deva, devs, dree, ears, ease, eave, eras, ever, eves, rads, rase, rave, read, rede, reds, reed, rees, revs, sade, sard, save, sear, seed, seer, sera, sere, vars, vase, veer, vees, vera.

-4 letters: ads, are, ars, ave, dee, dev, ear, eds, era, ere, ers, eve, rad, ras, red, ree, res, rev, sad, sae, sea, see, ser, var, vas, vee.

-5 letters: ad, ae, ar, as, de, ed, er, es, re.

+1 letter: depraves, pervades, reshaved, slavered.

+2 letters: adversely, advertise, crevassed, depravers, derivates, eavesdrop, endeavors, graveside, harvested, lavenders, overdares, overheads, overlades, oversaved, pervaders, reinvades, shivareed, traversed.

+3 letters: adventures, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertizes, daredevils, denervates, eavesdrops, endeavours, enravished, everglades, gravesides, misaverred, overcasted, overdosage, overpassed, overpedals, oversalted, oversauced, overscaled, oversoaked, overspread, overstated, overstayed, overtasked, overtrades, paloverdes, travestied, verdancies.

+4 letters: adventurers, adventuress, adversaries, adversative, adverseness, adversities, advertences, advertisers, asseverated, cadaverines, depravities, derivatives, derivatizes, eviscerated, heavenwards, overdosages, overexpands, overhandles, overpraised, overspreads, overstaffed, revalidates, revitalised, semidwarves, severalfold, slaveholder, undervalues, unharvested, untraversed, vivandieres, weaverbirds.

+5 letters: adenoviruses, adversatives, advertencies, beaverboards, decemvirates, deliverances, denervations, depravedness, depravements, desiderative, deverbatives, discoverable, disseverance, eavesdropped, eavesdropper, everydayness, extravasated, misadventure, overasserted, overeducates, overmastered, overpersuade, overshadowed, overslaughed, overstrained, perseverated, slaveholders, unadvertised, veratridines.

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