adverse (redirected from adverse drug reaction (ADR))

adverse adj. clearly contrary, such as an adverse party being the one suing you. An adverse interest in real property is a claim against the property, such as an easement.

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adverse (Hostile), adjective antagonistic, deprecatory, disagreeable, discordant, disinclined, dissuasive, fractious, inauspicious, indisposed, inimical, intolerant, opposed, recalcitrant, renitent, repugnant, resistive, restive, uncooperative, unfriendly, unreconciled, untoward, unwilling
Associated concepts: adverse claim, adverse effect, adverse enjoyment of property, adverse interest, adverse possession, adverse use, adverse user, adverse witness
Foreign phrases: Longa possessio parit jus possidendi, et tollit actionem vero domino.Long possession creates the right of possession, and ripens into a right of action against the real owner.

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adverse (Negative), adjective afflictive, calamitous, catastrophic, corrosive, deleterious, destructive, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, dreadful, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficient, prejudicial, ruinous, scatheful, unadvisable, unfortunate
Associated concepts: adverse determination of the court, adderse effect, adverse holding of the court, adverse interest

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adverse (Opposite), adjective adversus, antipodal, antithetical, antonymous, at variance, conflicting, conflictive, contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious, contrarius, contrary, contrastable, counter, counteractive, diametrically opposite, irreconcilable, obverse, reverse
Associated concepts: adverse action, adverse party

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See also: antipathetic, averse, competitive, contradictory, contrary, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, discordant, disinclined, hostile, inadvisable, inauspicious, incompatible, inimical, malevolent, noxious, ominous, opposite, pernicious, plight, regrettable, reluctant, renitent, repugnant, unfavorable, unpropitious