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Definition: AVERSELY |
AVERSELYAdverb1. With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly. 2. Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely. |
Date "AVERSELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Crosswords: AVERSELY |
| English words defined with "AVERSELY": Backwardly. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In the wind farm business, one of the mistakes often made by companies attempting to enter the market is the failure to convince local residents and environmental pressure groups that the presence of a wind farm will not aversely effect the local environment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aversely | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AVERSELY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa qejf (grudgingly, half-heartedly, loathly, logy, reluctantly, unwillingly), kundër dëshirës (grudgingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | против (against, agin, athwart, contra, on, versus, with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 反感地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abgeneigte (antipathetical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vonakodva (grudgingly, loath, loth, reluctantly, unwillingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 싫게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | averselyay com relutância (reluctantly, unwillingly). (various references) неохотно (grudgingly, reluctantly, unwillingly, with a bad grace, with half a heart). (various references) nerado (unwillingly). (various references) contrariamente (contrary). (various references) неохоче (grudgingly, reluctantly, unwillingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"AVERSELY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daverelle, obversely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "AVERSELY" (pronounced 'A*verse"ly'): Abruptly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Acutely, Adaptly, Adjunctly, Adroitly, Alertly, Antiquely, Apertly, Aptly, Archly, Argutely, Artly, Attently, Augustly, Austerely, Avisely, Awkly, Badly, Baldly, Barely, Basely, Beastly, Behovely, Benignly, Beseemly, Bigly, Billy, Blackly, Blandly, Blankly, Blindly, Blithely, Blolly, Bluely, Bluntly, Boldly, Booly, Bragly, Bravely, Briefly, Brightly, Briskly, Broadly, Brutely, Buffoonly, Burly, Calmly, Cavalierly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-v-y" | |
-1 letter: laveers, leavers, reveals, sealery, several, slavery, vealers. | |
-2 letters: averse, elvers, larees, laveer, lavers, layers, leaser, leaver, leaves, levers, ravels, reales, reaves, relays, resale, reseal, reveal, revels, salver, sealer, serval, slaver, slavey, slayer, sleave, sylvae, vealer, velars, versal. | |
-3 letters: arles, aryls, avers, earls, early, easel, eaves, elver, elves, erase, every, eyers, eyras, eyres, laree. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-v-y" | |
+1 letter: adversely, severally, severalty. | |
+2 letters: aversively. | |
+3 letters: assertively, caressively, pervasively, serviceably, versatilely. | |
+4 letters: aggressively, intervalleys, overanalyses, overanalyzes, persuasively, severability, transversely. | |
+5 letters: adversatively, everlastingly, overzealously, superlatively, unassertively, viceroyalties. | |
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