adverse

1) harmful; unfavorable; opposing; 2) unfriendly; hostile

Adverse winds made it necessary for us to change our course.

Related English words: adverseness, adversity (state of misfortune), adversative (conjunction expressing antithesis, such as "but" and "yet")

Latin root words: adverto, advertere, adverti, adversus - to turn towards; adversus, adversa, adversum - hostile, opposed to; verto, vertere, verti, versus - to turn 

Start over with first Word

Return to Flashcard Lists