Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a converse manner; as the converse; by conversion. See converse, n., and conversion.
Wiktionary
- adv. conjunctive with a reversed relationship
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with the terms of the relation reversed
Etymologies
- converse + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The fear, conversely, is that the idea of an overall freeze becomes a fetish while the specifics of program analysis fall out of the picture.”
“Conway's attack on Rand Paul, conversely, is coming under Conway's name, so he also owns the backlash.”
“Or, conversely, is this an announcement that is time to eliminate Disney's frozen pattern of animated films as children's fare and instead loosen standards so as to allow for mature, thoughtful animated films like A Scanner Darkly?”
“PMQs are ideally suited to his bulldozer style, which conversely is a complete liability when he is being interviewed by Paxo et al. At”
“The over-action conversely is traceable to loss of inhibitory influence, perhaps subliminal in itself and yet helping concurrent influences of like direction to maintain a normal restraint, the normal height of threshold against excitation.”
“And I was further induced to make trial of them, not only because the means which I had before used were inadequate, but from the ill effect I once observed upon the lungs, which succeeded the cure of a small sore beneath the knee; and argued conversely, that issues in the lower limbs might assist a difficult respiration.”
“And conversely, if he wasn't, he'd have to give other candidates time to consider a run.”
The Washington Post: Interview with retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman
“And conversely, installing Windows is no easier than installing Ubuntu.”
“All We Are Saying," conversely, puts the focus squarely on melody, as the guitarist recasts 15 Lennon tunes with guitars, violin, bass and drums.”
The Wall Street Journal: Searching for New Jazz Under Every Rock
“It's a sign that ETF managers are more than willing to make concessions to keep you in their funds or, conversely, entice you to try something new when competing ETFs and indexes arise.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conversely’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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In contrast
however, still, nevertheless, on the other hand, on the contrary, even so, notwithstanding, for all that, in contrast, alternatively, at the same time, though this may be and 26 more...
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Transitional and otherwise
then, consequently, thus, hence, so, ergo, wherefore, henceforward, to that end, to this end, accordingly, as a result and 34 more...
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September Words-11849
During the month of September, post at least 10 new words to this list. Make sure you cite where you read the word (book/author/pg) and quote the context/sentence where you found it. If someone has...
psilocybin, raca, schema, myriad, copacetic, chastise, fractal, tourniquet, turncoat, vicarious, surreptitiously, clandestine and 34 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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GRE
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, abrasive, abridge, abstain, acme, activism, adhere, admonish and 195 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Transitions
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Words I love
de facto, juxtapose, visceral, conversely, indicative, ecclesiastical, serendipity, audacious, venerate, pyrrhic, inherent, cacophony and 12 more...
Tweets
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JTroyer "Conversely, I'd call evil something that causes me pain..." The Shack by WM Paul Oct 1, 2010
yarb 'Retention can give rise to undue pain;/incontinence, conversely, causes shame...'
- Peter Reading, C, 1984 Jul 4, 2008