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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conversely
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Scandinavian cruises are very popular in the summer; conversely, the Caribbean is most popular in the winter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, conversely, does mimetic illusionism-the anthropomorphic statue-always fail as art?
▪ But conversely, music may also distract or annoy some workers.
▪ But, conversely, as long as more than one course of action is possible, the crisis has not been reached.
▪ Nor, conversely, does it aspire to art-pop status, because its aim is to be truthful to its mediocre soul.
▪ Or conversely, if some one else were to use your browser, it couldn't tell the difference.
▪ The more marked terms, conversely, represent pretensions of freedom and anarchy in writer, performer and audience alike.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conversely

Conversely \Con"verse*ly\ (? or ?; 277), adv. In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.
--J. S. Mill.

Wiktionary
conversely

adv. (context conjunctive English) with a reversed relationship

WordNet
conversely

adv. with the terms of the relation reversed; "conversely, not all women are mothers"

Usage examples of "conversely".

And therefore dimensive quantity is the subject of the other accidents remaining in this sacrament, rather than conversely.

Conversely, it is also easy to find oneself lining up with the debunkers and the champions of the status quo, for their arguments and views give the impression of being hard-headed, sensible.

Conversely, its proximity to the sugarhouse made it a final destination for the rest of the lines, which meant that it was crucial.

Conversely, if two input values map to the same output value, their difference must belong to the kernel.

Conversely, it shows which characters are not interacting with one another, thereby suggesting ways to bring new interactions, new relationships, new conflicts into the novel.

Conversely, a more graceful unpacking facilitates further and deeper intuitions, intuitions touching the I and the We and the It domains: not just how to contact the higher Self, but how to see it embraced in culture, embodied in nature, and embedded in social institutions.

It could be said that to assume a continuation of the sequence of the three ponderable conditions in the manner suggested is justified only if, as solids can be turned into liquids and these into gases, so gases could be transformed into a fourth condition and, conversely, be produced from the latter.

Conversely, no matter what a peace-loving person may have done, as a nonrevolutionary he is guilty.

Conversely, even if superpartner particles are not found by the Large Hadron Collider, this fact alone will not rule out string theory, since it might be that the superpartners are so heavy that they are beyond the reach of this machine as well.

Conversely, Marcy had three brothers, and he suspected that she had been somehow traumatized by the experience.

Conversely, being the breadwinner may be very hard but it is less stressful than being a spouse who needs to be a breadwinner but can't get a job.

Because of this, his name has been used for the two-valued doctrines of Aristotelianism, and, conversely, the many-valued realities of modern science are given the name non-Aristotelianism.

Conversely, she had been tremendously impressed by the Guild's tacit power: high-rank medicorps men had awaited Carrik at the three intermediary ports.

So she became "Shizuko" with the shy smile and the modest bow and chaperoned me—but conversely I chaperoned her without intending to.

So she became "Shizuko" with the shy smile and the modest bow and chaperoned meÄbut conversely I chaperoned her without intending to.