Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Expressing antithesis or opposition.
- noun A word that expresses antithesis or opposition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Expressing difference, contrariety, opposition, or antithesis: as, an adversative conjunction.
- Of adverse nature; inimical.
- noun A word or proposition denoting contrariety or opposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An adversative word.
- adjective Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; ); an
adversative force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective linguistics Expressing opposition or difference.
- noun rare, dated Something, particularly a clause or conjunction, which is adversative.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressing antithesis or opposition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Each of these terms has its own adversative nuances, so you should let context guide your selection.
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Each of these terms has its own adversative nuances, so you should let context guide your selection.
However 2008
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Aut was adversative: no one feared either social extremity.
Disjunction Jennings, Ray 2008
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But modern languages have rubbed off this adversative and inferential form: they have fewer links of connection, there is less mortar in the interstices, and they are content to place sentences side by side, leaving their relation to one another to be gathered from their position or from the context.
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The structure of the Greek language is partly adversative and alternative, and partly inferential; that is to say, the members of
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The structure of the Greek language is partly adversative and alternative, and partly inferential; that is to say, the members of
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But modern languages have rubbed off this adversative and inferential form: they have fewer links of connection, there is less mortar in the interstices, and they are content to place sentences side by side, leaving their relation to one another to be gathered from their position or from the context.
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The difficulty of preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which characterizes all modern languages.
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The difficulty of preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology which characterizes all modern languages.
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I therefore think that Jerome, in rendering the particle #K% (ach,) for, has done better than they who read it as an adversative disjunctive; ` otherwise your blood will I require; 'yet literally it may best be thus translated,
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
jmjarmstrong commented on the word adversative
JM is totally against all things adversative.
June 13, 2010