Adverse vs. Opposite
Adverseadjective
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.
Adverseadjective
Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
Adverseadjective
(not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
Adverseadjective
Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
Adverseadjective
Opposite.
Adverseadjective
In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
Adverseverb
To oppose; to resist.
Adverseadjective
contrary to your interests or welfare;
Adverseadjective
in an opposing direction;
Adverseadjective
preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable
Adverse
Adverse or adverse interest, in law, is anything that functions contrary to a party's interest. This word should not be confused with averse.
Oppositeadjective
Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
Oppositeadjective
(botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
Oppositeadjective
Facing in the other direction.
Oppositeadjective
Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
Oppositeadjective
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
Oppositenoun
Something opposite or contrary to something else.
Oppositenoun
An opponent.
Oppositenoun
An antonym.
Oppositenoun
(mathematics) An additive inverse.
Oppositeadverb
In an opposite position.
Oppositepreposition
Facing, or across from.
Oppositepreposition
In a complementary role to.
Oppositepreposition
(television) On another channel at the same time.
Oppositeadjective
Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; - often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange; the concert hall and the state theater stood opposite each other on the plaza.
Oppositeadjective
Situated on the other end of an imaginary line passing through or near the middle of an intervening space or object; - of one object with respect to another; as, the office is on the opposite side of town; - also used both to describe two objects with respect to each other; as, the stores were on opposite ends of the mall.
Oppositeadjective
Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme; antonyms have opposite meanings.
Oppositeadjective
Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
Oppositeadjective
Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.
Oppositenoun
One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.
Oppositenoun
That which is opposed or contrary in character or meaning; as, sweetness and its opposite; up is the opposite of down.
Oppositenoun
two words that express opposing concepts;
Oppositenoun
a relation of direct opposition;
Oppositenoun
a contestant that you are matched against
Oppositenoun
something inverted in sequence or character or effect;
Oppositeadjective
being directly across from each other; facing;
Oppositeadjective
of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem;
Oppositeadjective
moving or facing away from each other;
Oppositeadjective
the other one of a complementary pair;
Oppositeadjective
altogether different in nature or quality or significance;
Oppositeadjective
characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed;
Oppositeadverb
directly facing each other;
