different between adverse vs inconsistent
adverse
English
Etymology
First attested around 1374, from Old French avers (French adverse), from Latin adversus (“turned against”), past participle of advertere, from ad- (“to”) + vertere (“to turn”). See also versus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æd.v?(?)s/, /?d?v?(?)s/
Adjective
adverse (comparative adverser, superlative adversest)
- Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
- adverse criticism
- 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
- Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
- Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
- (not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Google Books
- Calpe's adverse height / […] must greet my sight
- 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Google Books
Usage notes
Adverse is sometimes confused with averse, though the meanings are somewhat different. Adverse most often refers to things, denoting something that is in opposition to someone's interests — something one might refer to as an adversity or adversary — (adverse winds; an attitude adverse to our ideals). Averse usually refers to people, and implies one has a distaste, disinclination, or aversion toward something (a leader averse to war; an investor averse to risk taking). Averse is most often used with "to" in a construction like "I am averse to…". Adverse shows up less often in this type of construction, describing a person instead of a thing, and should carry a meaning of "actively opposed to" rather than "has an aversion to".
Derived terms
- adversely
- adverseness
- adverse possession
- adverse yaw
Antonyms
- proverse
Related terms
- adversary
- adversative
- adversity
- versus
Translations
See also
- averse
Anagrams
- Deavers, Deveras, aversed, dreaves, evaders, re-saved, resaved, veredas
French
Etymology
From Latin adversus (“against, opposite”).
Adjective
adverse (plural adverses)
- adverse
Further reading
- “adverse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- déversa
Latin
Participle
adverse
- vocative masculine singular of adversus
References
- adverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Spanish
Verb
adverse
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adversar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adversar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of adversar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adversar.
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inconsistent
English
Etymology
in- +? consistent
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nk?n?s?st?nt/
Adjective
inconsistent (comparative more inconsistent, superlative most inconsistent)
- Not consistent:
- Antonym: consistent
- Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
- Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
- He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.
- 1862, The Christian Reformer (ed. Robert Aspland):
- He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.
- Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”
- “Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”
- 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
- (logic) Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
Derived terms
- inconsistently
Related terms
- inconsistency
Translations
Anagrams
- nonscientist
Catalan
Etymology
in- +? consistent
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /i?.kon.sis?tent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /i?.kun.sis?ten/
Adjective
inconsistent (masculine and feminine plural inconsistents)
- inconsistent
- Antonym: consistent
Related terms
- inconsistència
Further reading
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconsistent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconsistent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Romanian
Etymology
From French inconsistant
Adjective
inconsistent m or n (feminine singular inconsistent?, masculine plural inconsisten?i, feminine and neuter plural inconsistente)
- inconsistent
Declension
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