Usually means: Harmful or unfavorable in effect.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word adverse:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. adverse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adverse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adverse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adverse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adverse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adverse, adverse: Wordnik
  7. adverse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adverse: Wiktionary
  9. adverse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adverse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adverse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adverse: Dictionary.com
  13. adverse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adverse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adverse (film), Adverse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Adverse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. adverse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. adverse: Rhymezone
  19. Adverse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. adverse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. adverse: Free Dictionary
  22. adverse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. adverse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. adverse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. adverse: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. adverse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adverse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. adverse: Medical dictionary

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
adjective:  Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
adjective:  (not comparable) Opposite; confronting.

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