What is another word for adverse?
761 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ advˈɜːs], [ advˈɜːs], [ a_d_v_ˈɜː_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for adverse:- adversarial (adjective)
- adverse (adjective)
- aggressive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- calamitous (adjective)
- conflicting (adjective)
- contradictory (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- counter (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- detrimental (adjective)
- diametric/diametrical (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- disadvantageous (adjective)
- disastrous (adjective)
- froward (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hostile (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- incompatible (adjective)
- infelicitous (adjective)
- inimical (adjective)
- injurious (adjective)
- negative (adjective)
- opposing (adjective)
- opposite (adjective)
- oppositional (adjective)
- repugnant (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- unadvantageous (adjective)
- unfavorable (adjective)
- unfortunate (adjective)
- unpropitious (adjective)
- untoward (adjective)
- adverse (noun)
- contrast (noun)
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Synonyms for Adverse:
adj.
•adversarial (adjective) •adverse (adjective)- difficult,
- catastrophic,
- troublesome,
- unpropitious,
- inauspicious,
- hard,
- woeful,
- opposing,
- unlucky,
- grievous,
- antipathetic,
- miserable,
- distressful,
- burdensome,
- unfriendly,
- perilous.
- re-verse,
- most negating,
- most nullifying,
- coner,
- counter-active,
- co-nest,
- more nullifying,
- more anti,
- most anti,
- more antithetic,
- more negating,
- re verse,
- most reverse,
- anti-thetic,
- anti thetical,
- more agin,
- more reverse,
- anti thetic,
- conest,
- counter active,
- most against,
- anti-thetical,
- most agin,
- most antithetic,
- more against,
- co nest.
- wayward,
- in tractable,
- stubborn,
- obstinate,
- headstrong,
- in subordinate,
- head strong,
- more wrongheaded,
- in-subordinate,
- Non-conforming,
- most recusant,
- in-tractable,
- non conformist,
- most wrongheaded,
- dis sentient,
- dis-sentient,
- non conforming,
- more recusant,
- nonconformist,
- more dissentient,
- most dissentient.
- most hindering,
- most obstructive,
- impeding,
- more hindering,
- most impeding,
- most obverse,
- more obstructive,
- more obverse,
- more impeding.
- cumbersome,
- strenuous,
- cantankerous,
- stressful,
- bothersome,
- onerous,
- ticklish,
- complicated,
- thorny,
- oppressive,
- demanding,
- fussy,
- tricky,
- rugged,
- knotty,
- tight,
- wearing,
- grinding,
- severe,
- laborious,
- complex,
- finicky,
- tough,
- harsh,
- uphill,
- formidable,
- toilsome,
- wearying,
- rough,
- wearisome,
- trying,
- arduous.
- illtimed,
- most downside,
- in-expedient,
- dis-advantageous,
- un-profitable,
- most debit side,
- more debitside,
- most dyslogistic,
- more debit side,
- dis advantageous,
- more dyslogistic,
- ill-timed,
- un-complimentary,
- un complimentary,
- most debit-side,
- in-opportune,
- more downside,
- on debit side,
- more detracting,
- in opportune,
- un profitable,
- debitside,
- more uncomplimentary,
- most detracting,
- most debitside,
- more debit-side,
- most uncomplimentary,
- in expedient,
- objectionable.
- ill fated,
- ill starred,
- ill-starred,
- un luckier,
- illstarred,
- un luckiest,
- un lucky,
- un-lucky,
- un-luckiest,
- illfated,
- un-luckier.
- dis obedient,
- more insubmissive,
- dis-obedient,
- in-submissive,
- in submissive,
- most insubmissive,
- insubmissive.
- most oppugnant,
- in-hospitable,
- un-friendlier,
- most illdisposed,
- un-kinder,
- un friendlier,
- illdisposed,
- un-sociable,
- more oppugnant,
- un kind,
- un-kindest,
- un-kind,
- ill disposed,
- dis approving,
- un friendliest,
- un sympathetic,
- more disapproving,
- un sociable,
- un welcoming,
- un kindest,
- most disapproving,
- more unwelcoming,
- most unwelcoming,
- more illdisposed,
- un-friendly,
- un kinder,
- dis-approving,
- most ill disposed,
- more ill disposed,
- un-friendliest,
- more ill-disposed,
- in hospitable,
- most ill-disposed,
- un-welcoming.
- fore boding,
- more nocent,
- dis-respectful,
- in-auspicious,
- most unpromising,
- illmannered,
- in auspicious,
- un-gracious,
- fore-boding,
- un-promising,
- most nocent,
- more foreboding,
- un gracious,
- dis respectful,
- un promising,
- more unpromising,
- ill mannered,
- most foreboding,
- ill.
- mis matched,
- in conformable,
- un congenial,
- marching to different drummer,
- un-congenial,
- more inconformable,
- in appropriate,
- un-suited,
- in-conformable,
- more unadapted,
- un-suitable,
- un-adapted,
- in admissible,
- dis agreeing,
- more mismatched,
- night day,
- in-admissible,
- most unadapted,
- un adapted,
- most mismatched,
- marching a different drummer,
- in-constant,
- mis-matched,
- in-compatible,
- un suited,
- most inconformable,
- dis-agreeing,
- marching different drummer,
- in-appropriate,
- un suitable,
- in-coherent,
- in compatible,
- marching to a different drummer,
- whale difference.
- more libeling,
- opprobrious,
- most libeling,
- un-juster,
- un conducive,
- un juster,
- un-justest,
- un-conducive,
- most unconducive,
- un justest,
- un-just,
- more unconducive,
- un just,
- unconducive.
- diametrically opposed,
- flipside,
- independent,
- Fronting,
- flip-side,
- unsimilar,
- unalike,
- violative,
- most opposite.
- dis tasteful,
- un conformable,
- Revulsive,
- most unfitted,
- dis-tasteful,
- more revulsive,
- more unfitted,
- most revulsive,
- more unconformable,
- un fitted,
- dis-gusting,
- un-conformable,
- un-fitted,
- most unconformable,
- dis gusting.
- dis quieting,
- dis-honest,
- Ill-boding,
- ill boding,
- dis honest,
- illboding,
- more blackhearted,
- most doomful,
- most blackhearted,
- dis-quieting,
- more doomful.
- heart rending,
- more anguished,
- de solate,
- more heart rending,
- de-solate,
- more heart-rending,
- most anguished,
- most heart-rending,
- most heart rending,
- more crushing,
- most crushing.
- in convenient,
- un-seasonable,
- un-favorable,
- most discommodious,
- dis commodious,
- un seemly,
- un seemlier,
- more discommodious,
- dis-commodious,
- un-timelier,
- un-timely,
- in advisable,
- un-seemliest,
- un-timeliest,
- un timeliest,
- in-convenient,
- in-advisable,
- un-seemlier,
- un timely,
- un favorable,
- un timelier,
- un-fit,
- un seemliest,
- illadvised,
- un seasonable.
n.
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- support.
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- help.
Other synonyms:
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- divisive,
- invidious,
- offending,
- fraught,
- touchy,
- self-defeating,
- murphy's law,
- costly,
- problem,
- tendentious,
- punitive,
- amiss,
- schismatic,
- provocative,
- expensive,
- problematic,
- oppositional,
- adversarial,
- disruptive,
- intrusive,
- fractious,
- vexed,
- devilish,
- contentious.
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- contrast,
- corrosive,
- antagonistic,
- incendiary,
- awkward,
- inflammatory,
- opposed,
- undesirable,
- rogue,
- embarrassing,
- prickly.
- laggard,
- different,
- bad luck,
- execrate,
- inauspiciously,
- low,
- hard lines,
- Improsperous,
- compulsion,
- rival,
- recalcitrant,
- counteractive,
- inclement,
- dire,
- antonymous,
- rigorous,
- divergent,
- resist,
- contravene,
- clashing,
- disagreeable,
- rainy,
- reluctant,
- sick,
- Of,
- derogatory,
- discouraging,
- adversity,
- unwilling,
- grab,
- obverse,
- unhygienic,
- Into,
- hapless,
- dissenter,
- decayed,
- contrapositive,
- opponent,
- disputatious,
- luckless,
- shy of,
- Unblest,
- counteract,
- dissenting,
- unpleasant,
- Contradistinct,
- disconfirming,
- prejudicial,
- beforehand,
- evil dispensation,
- Compensating,
- highly,
- foe,
- contend,
- disinclined,
- adversive,
- ornery,
- Against,
- refractory,
- poor,
- under a cloud,
- in trouble,
- defy,
- backward,
- inexorable necessity,
- quarrelsome,
- scrupulous,
- slack,
- counterproductive,
- unconsenting,
- diagonally,
- individual,
- assailant,
- have no use for,
- go backward,
- perverse,
- counterbalancing,
- antagonism,
- injuriously,
- contrariety,
- evil,
- Unto,
- uncooperative,
- cross,
- wrongly,
- ahead,
- disparaging,
- unwell,
- heartsick,
- insulting,
- ominous,
- Oppugning,
- Dogsick,
- dissentious,
- facing,
- necessity,
- severely,
- alien,
- inversion,
- indirectly,
- contradiction,
- indisposed,
- Nocuous,
- antithesis,
- at issue,
- repel,
- abominate,
- sword,
- dissimilar,
- vie for,
- rush,
- go against,
- pernicious,
- discordant,
- ill luck,
- disobey,
- at variance,
- unbecoming,
- back,
- poorly,
- conversely,
- corruptly,
- balancing,
- discrepant,
- deplorable,
- not easy,
- critical,
- sloppy,
- indifferent,
- blustery,
- loathe,
- intimate,
- sleety,
- cataclysmic,
- failure,
- disagreeing,
- allergic to,
- belittling,
- lousy,
- contrarily,
- inopportune,
- hopeless,
- awfully,
- stuffy,
- unwelcome,
- loath,
- defend,
- fight,
- betray,
- slough of despond,
- distress,
- contrarious,
- troublous,
- affliction,
- warlike,
- down on,
- froward,
- antagonistic in purpose,
- condemnatory,
- wickedly,
- hard case,
- damaging,
- nasty,
- portentous,
- down side,
- calamity,
- endure,
- inverse,
- in conflict,
- previously,
- Versus,
- terrible,
- controvert,
- Onto,
- badly,
- necessitation,
- personal,
- Disputing,
- offish,
- detest,
- reverse,
- oppositive,
- inconsistent,
- Restiff,
- fate,
- snowy,
- baneful,
- obliquely,
- comparison,
- competition,
- adversary,
- noxious,
- unflattering,
- contradict,
- remiss,
- indecent,
- per,
- antithetical,
- unhealthy,
- other side,
- argumentative,
- countervailing,
- confronting,
- awful,
- badly off,
- in adverse circumstances,
- hardly,
- Toward,
- on the contrary,
- in disagreement,
- in advance,
- slighting,
- despise,
- opposition,
- abhor,
- squared off,
- foul,
- disapproving,
- frowns of fortune,
- insalubrious,
- deprecating,
- hostility,
- distinction,
- queasy,
- baleful,
- on,
- clouded,
- stormy,
- unsympathetic,
- restive,
- Disaccordant,
- antipodean,
- seriously,
- aslant,
- differing,
- During,
- enemy,
- converse,
- at war with,
- viciously,
- unconstructive,
- noncooperative,
- Upon,
- antagonist,
- rotten,
- Disliking,
- sick of,
- undone,
- backwards,
- Contrasted,
- hard luck,
- hardship,
- involuntary,
- unseemly,
- Overthwart,
- rebel,
- conflict,
- inconvenient,
- break,
- loth,
- improperly,
- wet,
- offensive,
- wretched,
- windy,
- bleak,
- malignant,
- dislike,
- obligation,
- rapier,
- evil star,
- Demurring,
- indecorous,
- offend,
- revolt,
- rob,
- con,
- at odds,
- dangerous,
- scrappy,
- hard life,
- grievance,
- fastidious,
- uncomely,
- oppose,
- averse,
- diametric,
- counterpoised,
- incongruous,
- deleterious,
- hurtful,
- electronegative,
- From,
- competitive,
- behindhand,
- noisome,
- squeamish,
- naughtily,
- subjection,
- wicked,
- hate,
- disagree.
Paraphrases for Adverse:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
unfavorable, unfavourable, harmful.
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Proper noun, singular
unfavourable, harmful.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
disadvantaged, disastrous, untoward, inclement, unintended, objectionable, unwelcome, iatrogenic, unhealthy, reverse, nefarious, difficult, nonperforming, nuisance, effects, debilitating, non-performing, opposing, inhospitable, unscrupulous, downside, favourable, deteriorating, therapeutic, deplorable, contrary, inverse, unpleasant, evil, perverted, abnormal, unsatisfactory, less-favoured, wrong, inappropriate, antagonistic, downward, wicked.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
deleterious, disadvantageous, damaging, prejudicial, perverse, undesired, pernicious, destructive, inimical, noxious, undesirable, counterproductive, negative, devastating, severe, opposite, dangerous, unfortunate, hostile, dire, harsh, detrimental, secondary, ill, serious, counter-productive.
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Proper noun, singular
undesirable, negative, detrimental.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Adverse:
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adj.
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unfavorable, antagonistic
fortunate, favorable, lucky, Aiding, good, friendly, Assisting, nice, helpful, auspicious, propitious, kind.
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Other antonyms:
benignant, healthful, safe, advantageous, curative, beneficial, remedial, nontoxic, cordial, innocent, secure, noninfectious, innocuous, nonpolluting, congenial, benign, sound, salubrious, agreeable, complying, affable, amicable, harmless, well-disposed, unresistant, nonvenomous, supportive, useful, tolerant, Hurtless, salutary, anodyne, nonfatal, hospitable, amiable, nonlethal, healthy, wholesome, understanding, nonpoisonous, inoffensive, favourable, nondestructive, noncorrosive, sympathetic, palliative.
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unfavorable, antagonistic