adverse

adverse
    adj 1: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse
           circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the
           most untoward conditions" [syn: {adverse},
           {inauspicious}, {untoward}]
    2: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary
       wind" [syn: {adverse}, {contrary}]
    

Adverse \Ad*verse"\, v. t. [L. adversari: cf. OF. averser.]
   To oppose; to resist. [Obs.] --Gower.
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Adverse \Ad"verse\, a. [OE. advers, OF. avers, advers, fr. L.
   adversus, p. p. advertere to turn to. See {Advert}.]
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   1. Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed;
      contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an
      adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
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   2. Opposite. "Calpe's adverse height." --Byron.
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   3. In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious;
      contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous;
      afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse
      circumstances, things adverse.
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            Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as
            well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
                                                  --Southey.
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   {Adverse possession} (Law), a possession of real property
      avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another
      person. --Abbott.
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   Syn: Averse; reluctant; unwilling. See {Averse}.
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88 Moby Thesaurus words for "adverse":
      adversary, adversative, adversive, alien, antagonistic, anti,
      antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous, at cross-purposes, balancing,
      clashing, compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting,
      contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious,
      contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractive,
      counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, cross,
      dead against, deleterious, detrimental, difficult, disaccordant,
      disadvantageous, discordant, discrepant, dissentient, enemy,
      eyeball to eyeball, fractious, hard, harmful, hostile, hurtful,
      impeding, in opposition, inconsistent, inimical, injurious,
      inverse, miserable, negative, noncooperative, not easy, obstinate,
      obstructive, obverse, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite,
      oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, overthwart, perverse,
      prejudicial, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, reverse,
      rigorous, rival, sinister, squared off, stressful, troublesome,
      troublous, trying, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly,
      unpropitious, unsatisfactory, untoward, wretched