adverse
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
adverse /ˈadvəːs/
▶adjective preventing success or development; unfavourable.
– derivatives
adversely adverb.
adversely adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. advers, from L. adversus ‘against, opposite’, from advertere, from ad- ‘to’ + vertere ‘to turn’.
usage: A common error is to use adverse instead of averse, as in I am not adverse to helping out, rather than the correct form I am not averse to helping out.
'adverse' also found in these Oxford entries:
adversary
- advert
- afford
- averse
- backlash
- blackball
- blowback
- cleft
- crimp
- critical
- cushion
- delicacy
- delicate
- dent
- disutility
- exist
- fallout
- grip
- guard
- harm
- hospitalism
- intolerant
- intrude
- life support
- philosophical
- react
- rebound
- recoil
- resource
- reversal
- roll
- spore
- thwart
- tolerate
- toll
- unfavourable
- with
