Antonyms for reverse

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : ri-vurs

Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈvɜrs

Definition of reverse

Origin : c.1300, from Old French revers "reverse, cross, opposite" (13c.), from Latin reversus, past participle of revertere "turn back, turn about, come back, return" (see revert). Reverse angle in film-making is from 1934. Reverse discrimination is attested from 1962, American English.

noun opposite
noun bad luck; failure
verb turn upside down or backwards
verb cancel, change

Example sentences :

To make it such is in every respect the reverse of scientific.
Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams

The Hampshire knight was not a man to be disheartened by a reverse.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

The action of the 16th September is considered by some to have been a reverse.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

Then, without comment, he glided out to reverse all his arrangements.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

Will you take my word for it, when I tell you she has not your right interests at heart, but the reverse?
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

Now, directly the reverse of this proposition is what is true.
Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright

We can only say that what is fittest for the monkey is ill-fitted for man, and the reverse.
Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright

I take it as the reverse of flattering to be supposed that I have any liking for such a ninny as you are.
Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr

I knew that so many of his “fair pupils” considered him exactly the reverse.
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

There was no liberty where the laws were unreasonable, and Shaddai's laws were the reverse of reasonable.
Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

Synonyms for reverse

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