Averse vs Verse - What's the difference?
averse | verse |
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
* {{quote-book, year=2004
, author=Arthur Schopenhauer
, title=Essays of Schopenhauer
, chapter=2
* {{quote-book, year=1885
, author=E. T. A. Hoffmann
, title=The Entail
Turned away or backward.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Lying on the opposite side (to'' or ''from ).
To turn away.
A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
Poetic form in general.
One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
(obsolete) To compose verses.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
To tell in verse, or poetry.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
to educate about, to teach about.
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, title= (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
As verbs the difference between averse and verse
is that averse is to turn away while verse is (obsolete) to compose verses or verse can be to educate about, to teach about or verse can be (colloquial) to oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.As an adjective averse
is having a repugnance or opposition of mind.As a noun verse is
a poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.averse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.}}
citation, passage=“I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, is really one of the most excellent and kind-hearted men in the world. As I have already told you, he did not assume these manners until the time he became lord of the entail; previous to then he was a modest, gentle youth. Besides, he is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.” As my uncle said these words he smiled mockingly, and the blood rushed hotly and furiously into my face.}}
- The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.
Usage notes
The terms (adverse) and averse'' are sometimes confused, though their 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".Synonyms
* (having a repugnance) disliking, disinclined, fromward, unwilling, reluctant, loathDerived terms
* aversely * averseness * risk-averseVerb
(avers)See also
* adverseAnagrams
* * * ----verse
English
Etymology 1
Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* blank verse * free verseVerb
(vers)- It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
- playing on pipes of corn and versing love
Etymology 2
Verb
(vers)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.