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Flippant vs Obverse - What's the difference?

flippant | obverse |

As adjectives the difference between flippant and obverse

is that flippant is (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity while obverse is turned or facing toward the observer.

As a noun obverse is

the heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.

flippant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
  • * Barrow
    • It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
  • nimble; limber.
  • Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
  • * Burke
    • a sort of flippant , vain discourse
  • * 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
    • The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
  • * 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
    • In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
  • * 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
    • Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * serious

    Derived terms

    * flippancy

    See also

    * irreverent * pert * facetious * frivolous

    External links

    * * English words suffixed with -ant ----

    obverse

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Turned or facing toward the observer.
    • The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
  • Corresponding; complementary.
    • When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
  • (botany) Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
    • an obverse leaf

    Synonyms

    * (turned toward the observer ): facing, presenting * (corresponding ): analogous, like, parallel, reciprocal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
    • The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.
  • (logic) The double negative of a statement e.g. All men are mortal'' => ''No man is immortal

    • Antonyms

    * reverse

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