Adverse vs Detriment - What's the difference?
adverse | detriment |
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.
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Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
(not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
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Harm, hurt, damage.
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(UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
As an adjective adverse
is 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.As a noun detriment is
harm, hurt, damage.adverse
English
(wikipedia adverse)Adjective
(er)- adverse criticism
- Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
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- adverse circumstances.
- the adverse page
- the adverse party
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- Calpe's adverse height / must greet my sight
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 that "has an aversion to".Derived terms
* adversely * adversenessSee also
* averseAnagrams
* * ----detriment
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”}}
