obverse
US/ˈɑb.vɚs/
obverse adjective: turned or facing toward the observer.
Adjective
obverse (not comparable)
- Turned or facing toward the observer.
- The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
- Synonyms:
- facing, presenting
- Corresponding; complementary.
- When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
- Synonyms:
- analogous, like, parallel, reciprocal
- Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
- an obverse leaf
Noun
obverse (plural obverses)
- 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.
- Antonyms:
- reverse
- A proposition obtained by obversion.
- White racism says that all black people are the same, with no right to or understanding of these words. Too much of what I have seen of black society simply assumes the obverse, that black people should have no interest in these words, that these words are irrelevant to or destructive of "black...1986, Reginald Shepherd, “On Not Being White”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 48
obverse meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
obverse in Tamil
- முகப்புப் பக்கம்
obverse in Urdu
- جواب
obverse in Bengali
- সম্মুখভাগ, বিপরীত দিক
obverse in Kannada
- ಮಾರು, ಮರು
More languagesFewer languages
- obverse in Vietnamese
- phải, mặt phải
Examples of obverse in a sentence
- The obverse is also true: homosexuality is regulated by gender baiting.
- The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans.
- The sixth function of parties is the obverse of controlling and coordinating the government, namely counterorganization for opposition or subversion.
Synonyms of obverse
Antonyms
Forms of obverse
| plural | obverses |
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Origin of obverse
From Latin obversus, 1650s.
Words formed from obverse
Words that rhyme with obverse
36 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- purse
- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- immerse
- multiverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- reimburse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- disburse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- public purse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about obverse
- What does obverse mean?
- Obverse means turned or facing toward the observer.
- What is obverse in Tamil?
- Obverse in Tamil is முகப்புப் பக்கம். See Obverse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is obverse?
- Obverse can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce obverse?
- Obverse is pronounced /ˈɑb.vɚs/ (US).
Words near obverse in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: obverse (page history and authors); obverse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obverse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obverse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obverse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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