the converse

noun

formal

: something that is the opposite of something else

They need our help, but the converse is also true: we need their help as well.

Examples of the converse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That bending is called the converse piezoelectric effect. —IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024

Yet the prospect of merging our courses excited me for a kind of parochial reason, as well—the converse of the reason for my past queasiness. —Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024

So the converse of Fermat’s little theorem holds for 3 and 5. —Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023

So the converse of Fermat’s little theorem is false. —Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023

But the converse is also true: helping the environment once, in aggregate, has a big impact. —Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023

But the converse of this love of family was a need to discover herself. —Karan Mahajan, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023

Cohan’s narrative suggests GE in its last two decades was the converse of what Mongon is striving for, suffering from a lack of clear operating goals and some very bad mistakes in capital allocation. —Alan Murray, Fortune, 24 July 2023

As every historian of fascism knows, fascism could not have existed without the leader, but the converse is also true: Hitler and Nazism were tied together, and the same applies to Trump and Trumpism. —Federico Finchelstein, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2020