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| Main Entry: | adverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfavorable, antagonistic |
| Synonyms: | conflicting, contrary, detrimental, disadvantageous, inimical, injurious, inopportune, negative, opposed, opposing, opposite, ornery*, reluctant, repugnant, stuffy*, unfortunate, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, unwilling, allergic to, down on, down side, have no use for, oppugning |
| Notes: | aversion is something that originates from within, whereas adversity is something that originates from without; adverse is usually applied to situations while averse is used to describe a person's attitude averse means reluctant or disinclined; adverse means hostile and antagonistic |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, auspicious, favorable, fortunate, helpful, lucky, propitious, aiding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | calamitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous; tragic |
| Synonyms: | adverse, deadly, deplorable, devastating, dire, fatal, grievous, harmful, heartbreaking, lamentable, messy, pernicious, regrettable, ruinous, unfavorable, unfortunate, woeful, afflictive, blighting, cataclysmic, catastrophic |
| Antonyms: | blessed, comforting, favorable, fortunate, happy, joyous, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | conflicting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | contradictory |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antagonistic, antipathetic, clashing, contrary, discordant, discrepant, dissonant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, opposed, opposing, unfavorable, at odds with, contrariant, disconsonant, incongruent, inconsonant, paradoxical, unmixable |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, harmonious, peaceful, nonconflicting |
| Main Entry: | contradictory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic |
| Synonyms: | adverse, against, antipodal, antithetical, con, conflicting, contrary, converse, counter, counteractive, diametric, discrepant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, irreconcilable, opposing, opposite, ornery*, polar, repugnant, reverse, agin, anti, antipodean, antithetic, negating, no go, nullifying, paradoxical |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, consistent, reconciled, confirming, reconcilable, vouching |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contrary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic; opposite |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, antipodal, antithetical, balky, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contumacious, converse, counter, diametric, discordant, dissident, froward, headstrong, hostile, inconsistent, inimical, insubordinate, intractable, negative, nonconforming, nonconformist, obstinate, opposed, ornery*, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, reverse, stubborn, unruly, wayward, anti, antipodean, contrariant, dissentient, paradoxical, recusant, wrongheaded |
| Antonyms: | accommodating, agreeing, alike, correspondent, harmonious, homogeneous, like, obliging, similar, concordant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contrast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antithesis, comparison, contradiction, converse, disagreement, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, divergence, diversity, foil, incompatibility, inconsistency, inequality, inverse, opposition, reverse, variance, variation, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, differentiation, dissimilitude, heterogeneity, incongruousness, oppositeness, unlikeness |
| Antonyms: | agreement, conformity, copy, equality, facsimile, likeness, similarity, uniformity, unity, homogeneousness |
| Main Entry: | counter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposite, opposing |
| Synonyms: | adverse, against, antagonistic, antipodal, antithetical, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contrasting, converse, diametric, obverse, opposed, polar, reverse, anti, antipodean, hindering, impeding, obstructive |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, corresponding, equal, same, similar, concurring, corroborating |
| Main Entry: | detrimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damaging, disadvantageous |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable |
| Main Entry: | diametric/diametrical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposed, conflicting |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipodal, antithetical, contradictory, contrary, contrasting, converse, counter, facing, opposite, polar, reverse, antipodean |
| Antonyms: | like, same, similar, approving, coinciding |
| Main Entry: | disadvantageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, inconvenient |
| Synonyms: | adverse, contrary, damaging, deleterious, derogatory, disparaging, downside, harmful, hurtful, ill-timed, inexpedient, injurious, inopportune, objectionable, pejorative, prejudicial, slighting, unfavorable, unprofitable, debit-side, depreciative, depreciatory, detracting, dyslogistic, on the debit side, uncomplimentary |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, convenient, helpful, well-timed |
| Main Entry: | disastrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, devastating |
| Synonyms: | adverse, calamitous, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill-fated, luckless, ruinous, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred |
| Antonyms: | blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous |
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
| Synonyms: | adverse, alien, allergic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty*, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, dour, hateful, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, ornery*, pugnacious, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, anti*, disapproving, ill-disposed, oppugnant, rancorous, scrappy, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incompatible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, contradictory |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, antipodal, antithetical, clashing, conflicting, contrary, counter, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disparate, factious, inadmissible, inappropriate, incoherent, incongruous, inconsistent, inconstant, irreconcilable, jarring, night and day*, offbeat*, opposed, opposite, uncongenial, unsuitable, unsuited, warring, inconformable, inconsonant, marching to a different drummer, mismatched, poles apart, unadapted, whale of difference |
| Antonyms: | compatible, consonant, harmonious, loving, suited, well-matched |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inimical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, contrary |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, destructive, disaffected, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, injurious, noxious, opposed, pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, ill-disposed, inimicable, oppugnant, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | friendly, hospitable, kind |
| Main Entry: | injurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful, libeling, nocent, unconducive |
| Antonyms: | assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice, aiding |
| Main Entry: | negative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, contradictory |
| Synonyms: | adverse, against, antagonistic, balky, colorless, con, contrary, counteractive, cynical, detrimental, gloomy, jaundiced, nugatory, opposing, pessimistic, removed, repugnant, unenthusiastic, unfavorable, uninterested, unwilling, weak, abrogating, annulling, anti, contravening, denying, disallowing, disavowing, dissentient, dissenting, gainsaying, impugning, invalidating, naysaying, neutralizing, nullifying, privative, recusant, refusing, rejecting, resisting, resistive, unaffirmative |
| Antonyms: | good, positive |
| Main Entry: | opposite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlike, conflicting; completely different |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antithetical, contradictory, contrary, corresponding, counter, crosswise, diametric, different, dissimilar, diverse, facing, hostile, inconsistent, independent, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, obverse, opposed, ornery*, polar, repugnant, retrograde, reverse, reversed, separate, unconnected, unrelated, antipodean, contrapositive, contrasted, diametrically opposed, differing, flip-side, fronting, paradoxical, unalike, unsimilar, violative, vis-รก-vis |
| Antonyms: | compatible, like, similar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repugnant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, obnoxious; hostile |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, adverse, against, alien, antagonistic, antipathetic, averse, conflicting, contradictory, counter, creepy*, different, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, foul, hateful, incompatible, inconsistent, inimical, invidious, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, odious, offensive, opposed, opposite, repellent, revolting, sickening, unfriendly, vile, horrid, in opposition, inconsonant, revulsive, unconformable, unfitted |
| Antonyms: | friendly, good, nice, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sinister |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, menacing |
| Synonyms: | adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, inauspicious, injurious, lowering, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, obnoxious, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, woeful, blackhearted, doomful, malefic |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, kind, nice |
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