[usuallybeforenoun] negative and unpleasant; not likely to produce a good result:
adverse change / circumstances / weather conditions * Lack of money will have an adverse effect on our research programme. * They have attracted strong adverse criticism. * This drug is known to have adverse side effects.
adversely adverb:
Her health was adversely affected by the climate.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for adverse is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is adverse a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, adverse is tagged as adjective.
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