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Adversative

Adversative meaning

Expressing opposition or difference. | Expressing adverse effect.

Synonyms of Adversative

Example sentences (5)

Adversative passive Some languages, including several Southeast Asian languages, use a form of passive voice to indicate that an action or event was unpleasant or undesirable.

Adversative replication can give an advantage in meme transmission when the meme itself encourages aggression against other memes.

The indirect or adversative passive has the same form as the direct passive.

The morpheme -cir- has an adversative meaning.

This so-called adversative passive works like the ordinary passive voice in terms of syntactic structure that is, a theme or instrument acts as subject.