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Adversative  adj.  Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc.); an adversative force.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... These are termed correlative because they occur together. But is termed the adversative cooerdinate conjunction because it usually introduces something adverse to what has already been said. Other words of an adversative nature are yet, however, nevertheless, only, notwithstanding, and still. Or is alternative in its force. This conjunction implies that there is ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks



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