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Definition: Adversely |
AdverselyAdverb1. In an adverse manner; "she was adversely affected by the new regulations". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adversely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Crosswords: Adversely |
| English words defined with "adversely": hit ♦ Interpleader ♦ strike, strike a blow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adversely": Acid deposition / acid rain, Affected Public, air quality related value, Algal Blooms, Antibiotics, Anthracycline ♦ Bobbin, Bound tariff rate, Brain Diseases, Metabolic ♦ Caribbean Basin Initiative, Critical habitat ♦ Demand ♦ Endangered Species Act ♦ green line ♦ HUMAN RESOURCE ADVISOR ♦ Nonpreference Category ♦ Primary Drinking Water Regulation ♦ Secondary Drinking Water Regulations, sloshing ♦ Targeted Export Assistance Program, Trade Act of 1974, Trade Adjustment Assistance, translocated. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Not all forms of wildlife are adversely affected by pollution".Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In reaching a decision on this matter the Commission shall take into account such domestic requirements of Germany as it deems essential for the maintenance of Germany's social and economic life, the prices and dates at which similar articles can be obtained in the Allied and Associated countries as compared with those to be fixed for German articles, and the general interest of the Allied and Associated Governments that the industrial life of Germany be not so disorganised as to affect adversely the ability of Germany to perform the other acts of reparation stipulated for. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The presence of multiple congenital defects may adversely affect survival. (references) | |
Smoking can adversely affect the ability of both men and women to identify odors. (references) | ||
At its onset, conjunctivitis is usually painless and does not adversely affect vision. (references) | ||
Business | Local manufacturers of port and cargo handling equipment are adversely affected by high manufacturing costs. (references) | |
However, the weakness or absence of many follow-through reforms by the GOE adversely affected stock market performance and stability. (references) | ||
No significant developments are expected by the local travel trade, which should significantly impact this market adversely in the near future. (references) | ||
Children | Cambodia | Children are affected adversely by an inadequate education system. (references) |
Yugoslavia | However, economic distress has affected children adversely in both the education and health care systems, particularly Romani children, who rarely attend kindergartens. (references) | |
Zambia | The Government seeks to improve the welfare of children, but scarce resources and ineffective implementation of social programs continue to affect adversely the welfare of children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Honduras | The dominant religion, Catholicism, does not affect adversely the religious freedom of others. (references) |
Cambodia | The Constitution implicitly limits free speech by requiring that speech not adversely affect public security. (references) | |
Cameroon | Many professors believe that adherence to opposition political parties can affect adversely their professional opportunities and advancement. (references) | |
Economic History | Cape Verde | Second, the high costs of transportation adversely affect profit margins. (references) |
India | Uncertain demand and excess capacity in many industries have adversely affected investments. (references) | |
Moldova | The sector has, however, been adversely affected in recent years by droughts, frosts, and floods. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ethiopia | The outbreak of hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea adversely impacted the military justice system. (references) |
Chad | In April 2000, the Chief Justice demoted two Supreme Court justices, Maki Adam and Ruth Romba, reportedly because they made a decision adversely affecting the interests of the Chief Justice. (references) | |
Hungary | According to a report by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) in 2000, persons detained by police complained of abuse, but very few file official complaints because they do not expect positive results and fear that the complaint may affect their cases adversely. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | The groups had charged that only the legislature may alter the nature of the reserve; that the public review process prior to the change was inadequate; and that expanded mining activities would affect adversely the health of the Warao, Arawako, Karina, Akawaio, and Pemon indigenous communities that inhabit the Imataca watershed area. (references) |
Political Economy | Guatemala | Significant declines in world prices for coffee adversely affected the economy. (references) |
ALGERIA | The Algerian government's procurement practices do not adversely affect U.S. exports. (references) | |
Political Rights | Libya | Corruption and favoritism, partly based on tribal origin, are major problems that adversely affect government efficiency. (references) |
Trade | Romania | Safeguard measures can also be implemented to assist domestic producers adversely affected by imports. (references) |
Kenya | However, delays in payment from some PTA member countries have adversely affected the efficiency and operations of this scheme. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | Travelers to Quito may require some time to adjust to the altitude (close to 10,000 feet), which can adversely affect blood pressure, digestion and energy level. (references) |
Colombia | Altitude: Travelers to Bogotá may require some time to adjust to the altitude (8,600 feet), which can adversely affect blood pressure, digestion and energy level. (references) | |
Uk | HMG has adopted the EU regulations governing the admission of non-EU business visitors and economic migrants to the UK, which limit the ability of some foreign nationals, including American citizens, to reside in the UK. The categories of persons adversely affected, to a lesser or greater extent, by the new immigration rules are self-employed persons, retired persons of independent means, business investors, and short-term business visitors. (references) | |
Women | Nigeria | There are no laws barring women from particular fields of employment; however, women often experience discrimination because the Government tolerates customary and religious practices that adversely affect them. (references) |
Tanzania | Government officials have called for changes in practices that adversely affect women, and the Sexual Offenses Special Provisions Act, which prohibits cruelty against children, has been used as the basis for campaigns against FGM performed on girls; however, there is no legal protection for adult women who undergo FGM. In addition police do not have adequate resources to protect victims. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ukraine | Work conditions and pay levels were impacted adversely by the overall poor state of the economy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adversely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adversely" is used about 418 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 418 | 13,577 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "adversely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有害地 (Banefully, Deleteriously, harmfully, injuriously, Perniciously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | akt som indeholder klagepunkt (act adversely affecting), uregelmæssighed til skade af Fællesskabets budget (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), retsakt der indeholder et klagepunkt (adversely affecting act), forringe konkurrencevilkaarene inden for det faelles marked (adversely affect the conditions of competition in the common market), fast ejendom og løsøre omfattet af samme skadestilfælde (immovable and movable property adversely affected by the same contingency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onroerende en roerende goederen die door hetzelfde onheil zijn getroffen (immovable and movable property adversely affected by the same contingency), onregelmatigheid ten nadele van de Gemeenschapsbegroting (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), nadelig beinvloeden (affect adversely, impair), de mededingingsverhoudingen op de gemeenschappelijke markt wijzigen (adversely affect the conditions of competition in the common market), bezwarend besluit (act adversely affecting, adversely affecting act). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | altérer les conditions de la concurrence dans le marché commun (adversely affect the conditions of competition in the common market), acte faisant grief (act adversely affecting, adversely affecting act), influencer néfastement (affect adversely), décision qui ne fait pas droit aux prétentions d'une partie (party to proceedings adversely affected by a decision), exercer une influence défavorable (affect adversely), exercer une influence néfaste (affect adversely), immeubles et meubles atteints par le même sinistre (immovable and movable property adversely affected by the same contingency), influencer défavorablement (affect adversely), se trouver lésé par une décision (be adversely affected by a decision), irrégularité au détriment du budget communautaire (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), lésé (adversely affected, adversely affected M), le Conseil européen s'est préoccupé de la situation de l'emploi dans certains secteurs gravement affectés par les changements structurels dans l'économie (the European Council expressed its concern at the employment situation in certain sectors adversely affected by structural changes in the economy), nuire l'environnement marin (to adversely affect the marine environment), partie la procédure aux prétentions de laquelle une décision n'a pas fait droit (party to proceedings adversely affected by a decision), importation de charbon portant préjudice la production communautaire (importation of coal adversely affecting Community production). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nachteilich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δυσμενώς. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | atto lesivo (act adversely affecting), atto arrecante pregiudizio (adversely affecting act), alterare le condizioni di concorrenza nel mercato comune (adversely affect the conditions of competition in the common market), irregolarit a danno del bilancio comunitario (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), beni immobili e mobili colpiti dallo stesso sinistro (immovable and movable property adversely affected by the same contingency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 差し障る (to adversely affect, to hinder), 差し障る (to adversely affect, to hinder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さしさわる (to adversely affect, to hinder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불리하게 (Disadvantageously, Inimically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adverselyay adversamente. (various references) напротив (contra, in front of, opposite). (various references) negativamente (negatively). (various references) oegentlighet som belastar gemenskapens budget (irregularity adversely affecting the Community budget), försämra konkurrensvillkoren på den gemensamma marknaden (adversely affect the conditions of competition in the common market). (various references) шкідливо, несприятливо (ill), протилежно (conversely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Adversely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adversay, adversery, Daverelle, obversely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adversely" (pronounced adver"slē) |
| 5 | -v er" s l ē | inversely, perversely. |
| 4 | -er" s l ē | tersely. |
| 3 | -s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, closely, concisely, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, conversely, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, densely, disastrously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, expressly, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, falsely, famously, ferociously, fiercely, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, grossly, harmlessly, harmoniously, hellaciously, helplessly, hideously, hilariously, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, immensely, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intensely, intravenously, jealously, judiciously, laboriously, listlessly, loosely, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, mysteriously, needlessly, nervously, nicely, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, parsley, perilously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, precisely, previously, princely, prodigiously, profusely, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scarcely, scrupulously, seamlessly, seriously, shamelessly, simultaneously, sparsely, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tensely, thusly, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-r-s-v-y" | |
-1 letter: aversely, delayers, slavered. | |
-2 letters: adverse, dealers, delayer, delvers, evaders, laveers, layered, leaders, leavers, raveled, relayed, reveals, sealery, several, slavery, sleaved, vealers. | |
-3 letters: alders, averse, dealer, dearly, deaves, delays, delver, delves, derays, devels, elders, elvers, erased, evader, evades, laders, larees, laveer, lavers, layers, leader, leased, leaser, leaved, leaver, leaves, levers, ravels, reales, reaved, reaves, redyes, relays, resale, reseal, reseda, reveal, revels, salved, salver, sealed, sealer, seared, serval, served, slaved, slaver, slavey, slayed, slayer, sleave, sylvae, vealed, vealer, velars, versal, versed. | |
-4 letters: aedes, alder, arles, aryls, avers, dales, dares, deals, dears, deary, deave, deers, delay, deles, delve, deray, devas, devel, drave, drays, drees, dyers, eared, earls, early, eased, easel, eaved, eaves, elder, elver, elves, erase, evade, every, eyers, eyras, eyres, lader, lades, lards, lardy, laree, lares, lased, laser, laved, laver, laves, layed, layer, leads, leady, lears, leary, lease, leave, leavy, leers, leery, lever, lyard, lyase, lyres, lysed, rales, rased, raved, ravel, raves, rayed, reads, ready, reals, reave, redes, redly, redye, reeds, reedy, reels, relay, resay, revel, sadly, salve, saree, saved, saver, sayer, seder, seedy, seely, selva, seral, sered, serve, sever, slave, slyer, sylva, vales, valse, veals, vealy, veers, veery, velar, velds, verse, yards, years. | |
-5 letters: aery, alee, ales, ares, arse, aryl, aver, aves, ayes, dale, dals, dare, davy, days, deal, dear, deer, dees, dele, dels, dere, deva, devs, deys, dray, dree, drys, dyer, dyes, earl, ears, ease, easy, eave, eels, eely, eery, elds, else, eras, ever, eves, eyas, eyed, eyer, eyes, eyra, eyre, lade, lads, lady, lard, lars, lase, lave, lavs, lays, lead, lear, leas, leer, lees, leva, levy, leys, lyes, lyre, lyse, rads, rale, rase, rave, rays, read, real, rede, reds, reed, reel, rees, rely, revs, ryas, ryes, sade, sale, sard, save, seal, sear, seed, seel, seer, sera, sere, slay, sled, vale, vars, vary, vase, veal, veer, vees, vela, veld, vera, very, yald, yard, yare, year, yeas, yeld. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-r-s-v-y" | |
+4 letters: adversatively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 76 65 72 73 65 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. ...- . .-. ... . .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100101 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d v e r s e l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0076 0065 0072 0073 0065 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357088718485717891 |
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