Obverse is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBVERSE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the side of the coin bearing the main design
• the side of a coin or medal bearing the head or principal design.
• the design or inscription on the principal side of a coin.
• the opposite or counterpart of a fact or truth
• opposite way of looking at an idea
• the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
• the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
ADJECTIVE:
• of or denoting the obverse of a coin or medal.
• corresponding to something else as its opposite or counterpart
• narrower at the base or point of attachment than at the apex or top
• Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
• The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
• Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
• facing or turned towards the observer
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the side of a coin bearing the main design

Words related to OBVERSE

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Words that contain OBVERSE

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How to use OBVERSE in a sentence

• There, on the obverse, is the figure of a running horse.
• But we need not go for examples to the New World, that obverse side of our planet.
• The two views are very similar in character, one being the obverse of the other.
• Both tablets consist of six columns, three on the obverse and three on the reverse.
• The obverse is very badly preserved, so that only a general view of its contents can be secured.
• Ingram, President of Trinity College, Oxford, I also owe a large Bronze Medal, with a medallion portrait of Stukeley on the obverse, and a view of Stonehenge on the reverse.
• On the obverse is a woman holding a flower or a priest offering incense.
• The obverse shows a profile head of the poet, in the modelling of which the artist seems to have been chiefly influenced by the Stratford bust.
• The head on the obverse is archaic in type, and very much resembles that of Sapor I.
• The characters on both obverse and reverse are also carelessly rendered, and can only with much difficulty be deciphered.
• They bear on the obverse the head of the king with the usual mural crown surmounted by a crescent and inflated ball.
• The most remarkable have on the obverse the head of the king, presenting the full face, and surmounted by a mural crown with a low cap.
• The bordering of pearls is single on both obverse and reverse, but the king wears a double pearl necklace.
• The obverse of this medal displays a fine figure of Victory placing a laurel wreath on the head of Britannia, in a stile of the most chaste simplicity.
• Exactly the obverse of these phenomena is often noticed, when a slight retardation of the second accent produces a slight increase in its intensity.
• Colonial policy would then show the obverse side of the medal.
• In my blind conceit the obverse side of the question had never presented itself to me.
• It is plain that the Messianic and the Satanic conceptions of the writers of these books are the obverse and the reverse of the same intellectual coinage.
• The passionate love of virtue is, in its obverse, an equally passionate hatred of vice.
• In the same way the passionate love of our kind has for its obverse an equally passionate hatred for the wrongs they endure.
• It was perhaps the obverse side of his fondness for finery, that Rembrandt had a strong leaning towards the picturesqueness of rags.
• Indeed, the whole movement is complementary of the first, the obverse as it were.
• These two feelings, the obverse of friendship and love carried to the utmost, are known only in lands scorched by the sun.
• Nearly all are of bronze, with the radiated head of the Emperor on the obverse, and on the reverse devices of every imaginable kind.
• This is a world that allows nothing without its obverse and reverse.
• It is, we think, the obverse of the Medal, with bronzed circular frame work bearing the motto suggested by Sir Walter.

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