1. (of a word or phrase) expressing something that is opposed to or the opposite of what has been said
   • ● the adversative conjunction ‘but’
   Word Originlate Middle English: from French adversatif, -ive or late Latin adversativus, from Latin adversari ‘oppose’, from adversus ‘against, opposite’, past participle of advertere, from ad- ‘to’ + vertere ‘to turn’.

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