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adverso

Spanish, adjective

adverso is spelled A-D-V-E-R-S-O (7 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 28,265th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adverso is a Spanish adjective meaning “adverse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of adversar. With an accent, adversó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of adversar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Contrario, enemigo, desfavorable”.

What does adverso mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    adverse

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of adversar

verb

as adversó
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of adversar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Contrario, enemigo, desfavorable. 2. Opuesto materialmente a otra cosa, o colocado enfrente de ella.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of adverso

  • adversa feminine
  • adversos masculine plural
  • adversas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to adverso

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is adverso in Spanish?

adverso appears 1.4 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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