Obverse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Facing or turned toward the observer: the obverse side of a statue.
  • adj. Serving as a counterpart or complement.
  • n. The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.
  • n. The more conspicuous of two possible alternatives, cases, or sides: the obverse of this issue.
  • n. Logic The counterpart of a proposition obtained by exchanging the affirmative for the negative quality of the whole proposition and then negating the predicate: The obverse of "Every act is predictable” is "No act is unpredictable.”
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Turned or facing toward the observer.
  • adj. Corresponding; complementary.
  • n. The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
  • n. The double negative of a statement e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  • n. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
  • n. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Turned toward (one); facing: opposed to reverse, and applied in numismatics to that side of a coin or medal which bears the head or more important inscription or device.
  • In botany, having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  • n. In numismatics, the face or principal side of a coin or medal, as distinguished from the other side, called the reverse. See numismatics, and cuts under maravedi, medallion, and merk.
  • n. Hence A second aspect of the same fact; a correlative proposition identically implying another.
  • n. Specifically, in logic, the contranominal of the inverse of a proposition.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
  • n. the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    choice    alternative    option   
    Cross Reference
    view    obverse tool   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    opposite    face    counterpart   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    coerce    converse    curse    disburse    disperse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chestful    affirm    offscouring    hurl    consign    lipgloss    gestatoria    common-size    tumbrel    revealer