Adverse

Adverse - Other Definitions

• (a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
  
  
• (a.) Opposite.
  
  
• (a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
  
  
• (v. t.) To oppose; to resist.
  
  
• (adv.) In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.