as in opposite
something that is as different as possible from something else
the new administration had promised peace and prosperity, but what we got was the obverse: war and recession
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as in reverse
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Recent Examples of obverse
Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Then, in an obverse of the way such situations usually go, in 1999 Thorn and Watt ankled the group but remained together as a couple, raising a family and occasionally releasing solo albums over the next 24 years.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The obverse side will still feature the portrait of former President George Washington by Laura Gardin Fraser.
—Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
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Noun
But the two scary-sounding facts have happy-sounding obverses.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Then, in an obverse of the way such situations usually go, in 1999 Thorn and Watt ankled the group but remained together as a couple, raising a family and occasionally releasing solo albums over the next 24 years.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
Adjective
The obverse side of the communications coin is that without TLS encryption, that information is there for anyone to sniff out.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
The obverse side will still feature the portrait of former President George Washington by Laura Gardin Fraser.
—Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obverse
Noun
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Although several previous studies have found that low-calorie diets improve depressive symptoms, the latest study shows the opposite.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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But experts told Davis and Kish, our reporting partner at The Oregonian, quite the opposite.—
Steve Suo,
ProPublica,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Or reverse years of institutional doubt about whether women belong on the grid.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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In the third, the Valkyries ballooned their lead to as big as 22 after a reverse layup from Fágbénlé.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
14 June 2025
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Inverse Design: Engineering Beyond Intuition What excites me most is the shift from trial-and-error engineering to inverse design.—
Yujie Huang,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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And this force falls off with the inverse square of the distance between them.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2025
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“Obverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obverse. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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