adverse
- adjective
- /ˈæd.vɜrs/
- Pollution from salmon and other fish farms is substantial and results in numerous adverse environmental effects.
- adverse effects
- adverse impact
- adverse consequences
Do you know about the ACE quiz stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences?
- Do you know about the ACE quiz stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences?
- There is a database called the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System or Fares.
- Do you know that ACE test, adverse childhood experiences?
- It makes me feel good and it doesn't have any adverse consequences.
- OK, now on this Adverse childhood event scale or experience scale.
- He sends the group text, a text saying I'm having severe adverse reactions from marijuana at this moment.
- And by weatherize they say they mean make the props fully functional and adverse weather conditions.
- Their risk of adverse events in the case that they have them is greater.
- It is defiance in the face of adverse adversity.
- And and so trade can shift prices in ways that are adverse some people.
Examples
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A life course conceptual model has been proposed to explain the adverse pregnancy outcomes of African American women.
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And I think there are significant adverse side effects.
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So it has an adverse impact on women and children.
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Not everybody works as well under adverse conditions as you do.
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The risk is greater in large families and those with adverse social circumstances.
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It's because there were significant adverse effects on the animals they tested it on.
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So we have numbers on the number of adverse effects, severe and not so severe.
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Those treatments, sometimes they have adverse side effects.
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Several teens attested to the adverse effect of being given too little autonomy or trust by parents.
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The medication may cause adverse reactions in some people.
Synonyms
Causing harm or showing strong dislike
Causing damage to people, animals or things
Causing harm to people, things, or the environment
Not good for success or approval
Causing problems that make someone or something worse off
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
One side in a deal knows more than the other, causing unfair deals
- Formal
A witness called by a party whose evidence is likely harmful and may be questioned more freely
- Formal
A formal auditor statement saying a company's accounts are not fair or correct
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
adverse = ad + verse
Although historically analyzable as Latin ad- + -verse ('turn'), the element 'verse' meaning 'turn' is not a standalone English word and the classical combining forms are not productive or obvious to typical learners, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from its parts.
Etymology
Adverse comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and versus ('turned'), from a root that means 'to turn'. Think of reverse, which has the same 'turn' root: when something is 'turned against' you it becomes harmful or unfavorable, so adverse means 'acting against' or 'harmful'.