| 单词 | adversative |
| 释义 | adversative (once / 181836 pages) adj WORD FAMILY adversative: adversatively USAGE EXAMPLESThe common relations between sentences indicated by conjunctions are coördinative, subordinative, adversative, concessive, and illative. Webster, W. F. (William Franklin), English: Composition and Literature(2010) Without the adversative, the colon is to be preferred: "Prosperity showeth vice: adversity, virtue." Osmun, Thomas Embly, The Verbalist—A Manual Devoted to...(2010) He is not their landlord, nor are they his tenants; and so far from their interests being in any way reciprocal, they are actually adversative. Carleton, William, The Emigrants Of Ahadarra—The Works...(2010) adj expressing antithesis or opposition the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy' Syn oppositive disjunctive serving or tending to divide or separate |
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