Origin
adverse + -ly
adversely
adverb
- Adversely means two things working against one another.
An example of adversely is when a riptide current pulls a person in the opposite direction.
- Adversely is defined as how someone or something works against what one wants, producing an undesirable result.
An example of adversely affected by circumstances is when a person needs a job, but they have been too sick to even look for one.
- The definition of adversely is a type of negative action to someone or something.
An example of reacting adversely is when a person tries a new prescription medication and they develop negative side effects as a result.
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Sentence Examples
- 1473 sqq., 3380 sqq.) have been adversely criticized, especially by J.
- The completion in 1902 of the line connecting Salisbury with Cape Town adversely affected the port of Beira, the long railway route from the Cape being increasingly employed by travellers to and from Mashonaland.
- Nay, it would even be found that the habit of philosophical reflection often operated adversely to the attainment of this end, by developing the thinker's selfconsciousness, so as to disturb that normal relation to external objects on which the zest of ordinary enjoyment depends.
- The commission was deputed to inquire into and report on certain of the grievances adversely affecting the gold industry.
- The depression was accentuated by the financial crisis in America, which affected adversely the wool trade, and in a more marked degree the diamond trade, leading to the partial stoppage of the Kimberley mines.
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