Crossword-Solution: AVERSIVE
We have 10 clues for the answer “AVERSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Causing avoidance | 1 answer |
| Causing repugnance | 1 answer |
| Causing strong dislike | 1 answer |
| Kind of stimulus | 1 answer |
| Showing repugnance | 1 answer |
| Antipathetical | 3 answers |
| CAUSING OR TENDING TO CAUSE THINGS TO SLIP OR SLIDE | 11 answers |
| festering | 55 answers |
| Antipathetic | 68 answers |
| Oppressive | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVERSIVE (2)
But she only bowed slightly to him, with a sidelong, aversive glance, and walked out of the room with a slow, rigid pace, like one that controls a tendency to giddiness.
With them he had nothing in common save the weather and ice-cream; and being imbued with a feeling of aversive contempt for the whole sex, the revelation of light and love which now burst upon him revolutionized his whole being and begat an enthusiasm that forgot impossibilities.
Quotes with AVERSIVE (3)
People are more likely to fall intensely in love when they are anxious and their self-esteem is lowest.... Feeling inadequate, unhappy, and empty are virtual prerequisites for falling and staying desperately in love; at least temporarily, the ecstasy of desire seems to cure everything that ails you. There is a connection between aversive states of mind -- loneliness, shame, even grief and horror -- and a propensity to feel overwhelming passion; this is one reason why romances…
The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved only because they once served the fitness of our genes. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-…
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1983–2020).