Crossword-Solution: AVERSE 6 letters, 154 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Averse a. Turned away or backward.
Averse a. Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking;
disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.
Averse v. t. & i. To turn away.

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AVERSE anagram ASEVER, REAVES, RESAVE, SEAVER, VARESE

We have 154 clues for the answer “AVERSE”

Clue Answers
Against, with "to" 1 answer
Definitely not keen 1 answer
Disinclined (to) 1 answer
Disinclined, plus 1 answer
Fighting shy of. 1 answer
Having distaste 1 answer
Having distaste for 1 answer
Having no use for 1 answer
Ill-disposed 1 answer
Less than willing. 1 answer
Loath (to) 1 answer
Not agreeable 1 answer
Not at all agreeable 1 answer
Not inclined (to) 1 answer
Not open (to) 1 answer
Quite disinclined 1 answer
Quite reluctant 1 answer
Resistant (to) 1 answer
Risk-___ (cautious) 1 answer
Risk-___ (reluctant to gamble) 1 answer
Showing reluctance 1 answer
Strongly disinclined 1 answer
Strongly disliking 1 answer
Strongly opposed (with "to") 1 answer
Turned off (to) 1 answer
Unfavorably disposed 1 answer
Word from the Latin for "turned away" 1 answer
___ to (not in favor of) 1 answer
Opposed or disinclined 1 answer
Not favoring 2 answers
Far from eager 2 answers
Far from sympathetic 2 answers
Hardly eager 2 answers
Hardly inclined (to) 2 answers
Not at all eager 2 answers
Not sympathetic 2 answers
Opposite of "inclined" 2 answers
Somewhat hostile 2 answers
Strongly opposed 2 answers
Strongly opposed (to) 2 answers
Unwilling (to) 2 answers
Not in favor 3 answers
hating 3 answers
Antipathetical 3 answers
Not eager 3 answers
Not inclined 3 answers
Reluctant (to) 3 answers
Not for 4 answers
Not in agreement 4 answers
Hostile to something or someone 5 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AVERSE (5)

The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
But it was manifest that all, except the Isosceles, were moved by his words and were either neutral or averse to the Bill.
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 1994
His cold and proud nature was always averse, however, from anything in the shape of public applause, and he bound me in the most stringent terms to say no further word of himself, his methods, or his successes—a prohibition which, as I have explained, has only now been removed.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Royall, though monosyllabic at home, was not averse, in certain moods, to imparting his views to his fellow-townsmen; perhaps, also, he was unwilling that his rare clients should surprise him sitting, clerkless and unoccupied, in his dusty office.
Summer Edith Wharton 2006
What would you have said later?” “That for a man who is generally averse to meddling, you were suddenly rather officious.” Rowland’s countenance fell.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with AVERSE (3)

It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd heard one?
Dimitri Verhulst De helaasheid der dingen
As you wish, of course." Lucius lowered the volume on an old record player, which spun a warped vinyl disk that wailed unfamiliar music, scratchy and whiny, like cats fighting. Or a coffin with rusty hinges opening and closing over and over again in a deserted mausoleum. "Do you like Croatian folk?" heasked, seeing my interest. "It reminds me of home.""I prefer normal music.""Ah, yes, your MTV with all the bumping and grinding. Like a shot of raging adolescent hormones admini…
Beth Fantaskey Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it — they are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (“Clearly . . .”), threat (“It would be unscientific to . . .”), authority (“As Popper sho…
Steven Pinker How the Mind Works
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 376 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).