adverse
IPA: ædvˈɝs
adjective
- Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
- Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
- (not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
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Examples of "adverse" in Sentences
- The tourism industry was adversely affected.
- That adversely affected the health of the emigrants.
- The worst of which was probably the adverse climate.
- It causes adverse instability in the mind of the doer.
- Complications affect adversely the prognosis of a disease.
- Confidence in the value of banknotes was adversely affected.
- In criminal prosecutions, the adverse party is the defendant.
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