Usually means: Strongly opposed to; disliking greatly.
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  1. averse: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  20. averse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. averse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. averse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. averse: Online Etymology Dictionary

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  1. averse: Legal dictionary

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  1. averse: Encyclopedia

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  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.

Similar:
antipathetic, antipathetical, loath, indisposed, disinclined, loth, repug, repugnant, abhorrent, repellent, more...

Opposite:
fond, inclined, willing, eager, enthusiastic

Types:
risk averse, loss averse, ambiguity averse, status quo averse, regret averse, uncertainty averse, novelty averse, more...

Phrases:
averse to, risk averse, averse to expenditure, opposite of averse, one averse to mingling, more...

Adjectives:
first, risk, general, more, whole, least, wise, french, bottom, bowering, individual

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Similar:
antipathetic, antipathetical, loath, indisposed, disinclined, loth, repug, repugnant, abhorrent, repellent, more...

Opposite:
fond, inclined, willing, eager, enthusiastic

Types:
risk averse, loss averse, ambiguity averse, status quo averse, regret averse, uncertainty averse, novelty averse, more...

Phrases:
averse to, risk averse, averse to expenditure, opposite of averse, one averse to mingling, opposite of change averse, conflict averse, averse to mingling, opposite of risk averse, averse to activity, more...

Adjectives:
first, risk, general, more, whole, least, wise, french, bottom, bowering, individual

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     olive,     maroon, more...



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