Usually means: Strongly opposed to; disliking greatly.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word averse:

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  1. averse: Merriam-Webster
  2. averse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. averse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. averse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. averse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Averse, averse: Wordnik
  7. averse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. averse: Wiktionary
  9. averse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. averse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. averse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Averse, averse: Dictionary.com
  13. averse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Averse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. averse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. averse, averse (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. averse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. AVERSE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. averse: FreeDictionary.org
  20. averse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. averse: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. averse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  23. averse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. averse: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. averse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. averse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. averse: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (averse)

adjective:  Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
adjective:  Turned away or backward.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lying on the opposite side (to or from).
adjective:  (heraldry) Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To turn away.

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