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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverse
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an adverse impactformal (= a bad effect)
▪ The loss of forests has had an adverse impact on bird populations.
an adverse reactionformal (= a bad reaction)
▪ The patient died after having an adverse reaction to the drug.
an adverse/unfortunate consequence (=that affects your life, a situation etc badly)
▪ Divorce often has unfortunate consequences for children.
harmful/serious/adverse etc side effect
▪ a natural remedy with no harmful side effects
the adverse effectsformal (= the bad effects)
▪ No one told them about the adverse effects of smoking marijuana.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
change
▪ Particular care is needed to identify any material adverse changes.
circumstances
▪ In species that forage inshore, clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances.
▪ Both of them now have to learn to take care of themselves, even in the most adverse circumstances.
▪ It is the domestic courage and creativity of the poor in the most adverse circumstances that is usually emphasized.
▪ One important feature of such factors is that they will tend to shape the person's capacity to cope with adverse circumstances.
comment
▪ The distinction between the intermediate and the aggravated offence has also given rise to adverse comment.
▪ They are likely to be fairly nosey - don't be put off by adverse comments!
▪ The cost of the book must provoke adverse comment.
▪ The campaign provoked great interest and virtually no adverse comment.
▪ It even raised adverse comments within the correspondence columns of Gay News itself.
▪ Most adverse comments concerned specific issues in the design and layout of the form, rather than its conceptual basis.
consequence
▪ Failure to persuade medical staff of the adverse consequences on patient care should be reported to the next level of management.
▪ Hospital stays for these patients could be safely limited to 24 to 48 hours with no apparent adverse consequences.
▪ Some of these cost very little, if anything, but all have been shown to ameliorate the adverse consequences of change.
▪ The tenant will, however, need to ensure that too wide a use will not have adverse consequences on rent review.
▪ Press and television reports on the adverse consequences of the centre's decision may lead to the decision being reconsidered.
criticism
▪ But, though they have never been overruled, they have attracted strong adverse criticism.
▪ We are ... concerned about the extent of the misplaced adverse criticism social workers have received from the media and elsewhere.
drug
▪ My physician has filed an adverse drug reaction report.
▪ Indeed, reducing adverse drug events should ultimately save hospitals money as well as spare patients misery, the researchers say.
effect
▪ In addition, other policies had an adverse effect on the major conurbations.
▪ In spite of the adverse effects, the benzodiazepines are relatively safe drugs.
▪ Their potentially adverse effects with particular reference to the diabetic will now be outlined.
▪ The rising concentration of industry and the possible adverse effects on monopoly power are viewed as the factors of paramount importance.
▪ The move follows a government-commissioned report, which warns that the taxes are having an adverse effect on industrial production.
▪ You wouldn't expect much speed out of it, but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect.
▪ Such treatments are generally thought to have few adverse effects and are often self administered.
▪ No drug related adverse effects were found during and after completion of the study.
event
▪ During follow-up, adverse events were looked for systematically at all scheduled and unscheduled visits.
▪ There were no adverse events during the studies.
▪ An independent data and safety monitoring board compared the frequency of all adverse events in the two groups during three biannual meetings.
▪ For adverse events, incidence rates were calculated and expressed in 100 person-time at risk.
▪ Log-rank test for clinical adverse events and Fisher's exact test for laboratory adverse events.
▪ We investigated whether this drug was comparable to standard first-line monotherapy in efficacy and incidence of adverse events.
▪ The primary outcome was time to withdrawal because of lack of efficacy or adverse events.
health
▪ There were no adverse health effects resulting from the exposure.
▪ The authors of the study wrote that the majority of epidemiological studies have found little adverse health effects of implants.
impact
▪ In the early 1980s, there was another severe drought cycle but the adverse impact was less.
▪ Some supporters said Starr should reconsider his decision because of its likely adverse impact on cooperating witnesses.
▪ The importance of early recognition of Crohn's disease before it has such an adverse impact on linear growth is highlighted.
▪ It did, however, have a violent, adverse impact on their votes.
▪ The distractions from the running of the business and the adverse impact on profit performance.
▪ They lose credibility quickly with a resultant adverse impact on employee performance and profit.
interference
▪ For theft there must be adverse interference or usurpation.
▪ In Morris the Lords held that there was no appropriation without an adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner's rights.
possession
▪ This then is the context within which statutory rules and cases on adverse possession must be seen.
▪ But Leonard Koerner, counsel for the city, said adverse possession does not apply in this case.
publicity
▪ And there's one thing that Great-gran can't stand and that's adverse publicity in any way.
▪ Remember that, Andrew, adverse publicity in any way.
▪ It needs to ride out the storms of adverse publicity.
▪ To obtain an eviction order through the courts could mean a lengthy legal process, possibly entailing adverse publicity.
▪ Overall coverage and publicity of the day was excellent, with very little adverse publicity.
▪ The directors, however, could argue that to do so would expose the company to adverse publicity.
▪ The consequent adverse publicity was widely held to be damaging to the Labour cause.
reaction
▪ The challenge was stopped and the patients were examined, when any adverse reaction was noted.
▪ He eventually received a stack of complaints about adverse reactions, including cramps, nausea, heart palpitations, and severe diarrhea.
▪ By May 1982 another thousand adverse reactions may have been reported.
▪ The second is not to use the medication with those who are at risk for a serious adverse reaction.
▪ Other adverse reactions due to systemic absorption, such as hypoglycaemia, rash, and acute renal failure, are rare.
▪ Appler also said some reports of adverse reactions to Ma huang are unsubstantiated.
▪ More effective surveillance should also be encouraged in tropical countries, both to monitor efficacy and to document adverse reactions.
▪ Spokesmen said they have gotten few, if any, reports of adverse reactions from consumers who used their products properly.
selection
▪ The danger, Mr Peabody says, is that a process of adverse selection is under way.
▪ This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection.
▪ However, we saw that problems of adverse selection and moral hazard would inhibit the organization of private insurance markets.
side
▪ The only instant adverse side effect is a desperate thirst, stiff aching muscles and a loss of appetite.
▪ Marijuana is said to relieve some of the adverse side effects of those diseases.
▪ The formalization of decision-making could have adverse side effects.
▪ This is particularly acute with the development of new drugs, as adverse side effects may not be foreseeable.
weather
▪ Moreover, surveyors are sometimes pressurised by the subcontractor to overpay, particularly when output has been restricted during adverse weather conditions.
▪ Attendance 118 despite very adverse weather conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ adverse publicity
▪ Climate change is likely to have adverse impacts on human health.
▪ In spite of adverse public opinion, the plan to privatize the railways continued.
▪ Planes are being kept on the ground because of the adverse weather.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Appler also said some reports of adverse reactions to Ma huang are unsubstantiated.
▪ However, both have weathered storms before and are used to surviving in adverse times.
▪ Instead, the number of adverse outcomes is plotted against the total number of cases on a graph.
▪ Many observers suggest that this transfer has had mainly adverse effects on the population concerned.
▪ Other people can also help by noting the more subtle effects, both beneficial and adverse, of treatment.
▪ The Labour Government was haunted constantly by economic difficulties, largely caused by an adverse balance of payments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adverse

Adverse \Ad*verse"\, v. t. [L. adversari: cf. OF. averser.] To oppose; to resist. [Obs.]
--Gower.

Adverse

Adverse \Ad"verse\, a. [OE. advers, OF. avers, advers, fr. L. adversus, p. p. advertere to turn to. See Advert.]

  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.

  2. Opposite. ``Calpe's adverse height.''
    --Byron.

  3. In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.

    Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
    --Southey.

    Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person.
    --Abbott.

    Syn: Averse; reluctant; unwilling. See Averse.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adverse

late 14c., "contrary, opposing," from Old French avers (13c., Modern French adverse) "antagonistic, unfriendly, contrary, foreign" (as in gent avers "infidel race"), from Latin adversus "turned against, turned toward, fronting, facing," figuratively "hostile, adverse, unfavorable," past participle of advertere, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Related: Adversely.

Wiktionary
adverse

a. unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.

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WordNet
adverse

  1. adj. contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions" [syn: harmful, inauspicious, untoward]

  2. in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind" [syn: contrary]

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Wikipedia
Adverse

Adverse or adverse interest, in law, is anything that functions contrary to a party's interest. This word should not be confused with averse.

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Usage examples of "adverse".

O thou, my squire, amiable companion of my favorable and adverse adventures, take note and fix in thy mind what thou wilt see me do here, so that thou mayest recount and relate it to the sole cause of all my actions!

The publicly expressed opinions of the agitator had been so very adverse to those conveyed in this private communication, that its perusal caused a great sensation in the house.

Jeffrey had had one other adverse reaction to local anesthetic in his professional career.

Naples it began to shew itself less adverse, and on my return to that city it entirely smiled upon me.

For it is not want the avenger of iniquity, nor the adverse fortune of your parents, nor violent necessity that has thus oppressed you with beggary, but a devout will and Christ-like election, by which ye have chosen that life as the best, which God Almighty made man as well by word as by example declared to be the best.

Venier, I did not devote any time to the study, either moral or physical, of the country, for, excepting the days on which I was on duty, I passed my life at the coffee-house, intent upon the game, and sinking, as a matter of course, under the adverse fortune which I braved with obstinacy.

But before that period, dear, reader, you will see what good and adverse fortune did for or against me.

Those who held that everything emanated from God, aspired to God, and re-entered into God, believed that, among those emanations were two adverse Principles, of Light and Darkness, Good and Evil.

Enrico upon a still firmer basis, no adverse circumstances might prevent their union.

I would play, and I was wrong, for I had neither prudence enough to leave off when fortune was adverse, nor sufficient control over myself to stop when I had won.

During the fifth game, a run of adverse cards made him lose all he had won, and as he tried to do violence to Dame Fortune in the sixth round, he lost every sequin he had.

She had sufficient sea lore to understand that this implied shelter from wind and wave, but Hozier omitted to tell her that the only practicable roadstead in the island, being on the weather side, would be rendered unsafe by the present adverse combination of the elements.

Court held that a declaration should have been issued by the district court, although it reiterated with the usual emphasis the necessity of adverse parties, a justiciable controversy and specific relief.

To say sooth, these two may well be adverse to each other, for I would not have thee hear so much of tidings as shall lead thee on, but rather I would have thee return with me, and not throw thy young life away: for indeed I have an inkling of what thou seekest, and meseems that Death and the Devil shall be thy faring-fellows.

The bishops who had opposed, were required to subscribe, the sentence, and to unite in religious communion with the suspected leaders of the adverse party.