obverse 1 of 2

as in opposite
something that is as different as possible from something else the new administration had promised peace and prosperity, but what we got was the obverse: war and recession

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adjective

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Recent Examples of obverse
Noun
The obverse side of the communications coin is that without TLS encryption, that information is there for anyone to sniff out. Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025 The obverse side will still feature the portrait of former President George Washington by Laura Gardin Fraser. Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
Adjective
Kraft noted that the coin's obverse was identical to the 1806 British coinage, while the reverse was unique to the Bahamas. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025 According to one estimate, 96 percent of the world’s population speaks just four percent of all languages, which means that the striking obverse is also true: just four percent of the world’s population speaks 96 percent of all languages. Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for obverse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obverse
Noun
  • Following a Week 1 loss to Appalachian State, where the scoreboard wasn’t indicative of how lopsided the game was, Saturday night’s matchup was the opposite.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The view of experts is the opposite.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Do a reverse image search of the pet's photo and search for a distinctive phrase in the description.
    Abreanna Blose, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The moves come following completion of Blue Ant’s reverse takeover transaction and Toronto Stock Exchange listing.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The chart above is showing you that the stock is now emerging from an inverse head and shoulders.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Obverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obverse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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