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Adverse means having a negative or harmful effect on something. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, such as publicity, weather, conditions, and reactions, with synonyms and examples.
Learn the difference between adverse and averse, two adjectives that describe negative reactions, conditions, or effects. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles for adverse.
Adverse means having a negative or harmful effect on something. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, such as publicity, weather, or reactions, with synonyms and translations.
Adverse is seldom used of people but rather of effects or events, and it usually conveys a sense of hostility or harmfulness: adverse reviews; adverse winds; adverse trends in the economy. Related nouns are adversity and adversary: Adversities breed bitterness.
ADVERSE definition: 1. things that cause problems or danger: 2. something negative that is said or written about…. Learn more.
Coming from the Latin adversus meaning "turned against," adverse is an adjective describing a factor that seems to work against or actively harm something. Think of the related word, adversary, which means "enemy or opponent," so that if something is adverse, it acts as if it were the enemy.
Learn the meaning and usage of the adjective adverse, which means negative and unpleasant or not likely to produce a good result. See pictures, pronunciation, synonyms and example sentences from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
