Know Your Next Word : adverse

20. adverse :

adjective :

unfavorable, antagonistic



usage :

• Airplanes often don't fly in adverse weather.

• We had to play our soccer match under adverse conditions. It was snowing and only three members of our team had bothered to show up.

• An airplane that took off in bad weather and reached its destination safely would be said to have overcome adversity.

• Adversity means misfortune or unfavorable circumstances. To do something in the face of adversity is to undertake a task despite obstacles. Some people are at their best in adversity, because they rise to the occasion.

• A word often confused with adverse is averse. The two are related but they don't mean quite the same thing. A person who is averse to doing something is a person who doesn't want to do it. To be averse to something is to be opposed to doing it, to have an aversion to doing it.

• adverse circumstances



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