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adverse

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of adverse

1 opposed to one's interests

All the adverse publicity really caused the movie star's popularity to suffer.

Synonyms of adverse

counter, disadvantageous, hostile, inimical, negative, prejudicial, unfavorable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, untoward

Words Related to adverse

bad, baleful, baneful, evil

damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fatal, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, lethal, malignant, murderous, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, ruinous, threatening, troublesome, unhealthy, wounding

dangerous, hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, perilous, risky, unsafe

defamatory, detractive, offensive, scathing, slanderous

antagonistic, antipathetic, inhospitable, intolerant, uncongenial, uncooperative

competing, conflicting, counteracting, countering, opposing, resistant, resisting

Near Antonyms of adverse

beneficial, good, helpful, propitious, useful

harmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, nondestructive, nonfatal, nonlethal, nonthreatening

tolerant, understanding

affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, benign, benignant, complying, congenial, cordial, friendly, hospitable

Antonyms of adverse

advantageous, favorable, friendly, positive, supportive, sympathetic, well-disposed

2 causing or capable of causing harm

The adverse effects of the drug are too severe to allow it to be marketed.

Synonyms of adverse

bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked

Words Related to adverse

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of adverse

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

Antonyms of adverse

benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe

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