Adverse is valid Scrabble Word

Is adverse a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for ADVERSE in dictionary:

VERB:

To oppose; to resist.

ADJECTIVE:

acting against
preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable
Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
Opposite.
In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one\'s wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
contrary to your interests or welfare
in an opposing direction
unfavourable

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

acting in opposition

Words related to ADVERSE

adversely16 adverseness15 adversenesses17 adverser12 adversest13 unfavourable20

Words that contain ADVERSE

adverser12 adversely16 adversest13 adverseness15 adversenesses17

How to use ADVERSE in a sentence

Another is, the fact that the adverse critics missed their mark.
Were the plan of the convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be, Reject the plan.
It was like the changes that come over us so often, as we toss upon the tide of life, and buffet its adverse storms.
He was detained there for some days by heavy weather and adverse winds, and sailed thence to his unhappy experience in Jamaica.
As to burning defenceless towns and villages, I have always been thoroughly adverse to such things, so I never undertook it.
The more pleased the other side, the more reason to fear that matters were adverse on ours.
General Lee, not fully informed of the adverse popular sentiment, sent a few Confederate regiments into that region to gather recruits and hold the important mountain passes.
To make this clear, we will begin with the King, and show his mode of moving and of capturing an adverse man.
Of course, his chief heroes are those who were more or less adverse to the claims of the Roman See, such as Grossteste, Bradwardine, Wickliff, and Jerome of Prague.
In the mean time the general spirit, even of the merchants, is becoming adverse to it.

The Serbs seem to have been so sure of Entente support that even the adverse reports of a consul had no terrors for them.
The quality is good also when grown under adverse conditions, but the quantity is deficient.
He was, however, known to be firm in his hatred towards the Papists, and adverse to any relief being afforded to them.
His government did not exist long enough in power to carry these recommendations into effect, and their successors were supposed to be adverse to the subject.
The duke was adverse to all these concessions, and determined to resist them as long as they could be resisted, with safety to the crown and peerage.
Occasionally they gave a verdict upon a party question, adverse to the arguments of the leaders of the party in power.
And, besides, lay preaching would be just as adverse to Mr.
It so happened, in the chances and vicissitudes of human affairs, that the result was adverse to the Hungarian revolution.
The plan was favored pretty generally by bankers, but called forth many adverse opinions.
The history of this comic poet is the tale of powerful genius creating itself amidst the most adverse elements.
He had little self-confidence, and was easily put out by a breath of adverse criticism.
At this Ned raged, declaring, that these gentlemen, though themselves in adverse circumstances, had relations and friends among the quality or the wealthy.
But long after majority opinion has become adverse, there remains a vigorous minority opinion defending the menaced interests.
Suddenly out of the grass the long white horns of the cattle Rose like flakes of foam on the adverse currents of ocean.
Several years had now passed since the merchant began to feel the shock of adverse winds.
He also knew that he would have to answer many questions, and would be forced to tell of his own part in the rescue, a thing which was adverse to his nature.

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