averse means having a repugnance or opposition of mind. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.
averse is pronounced /əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/.
Etymology
From Latin aversus, past participle of avertere (“to avert”).
adj
- Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.“The board is not averse to further talks.”
- Turned away or backward.“The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.”
- Lying on the opposite side (to or from).
- Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
verb
- To turn away.“[…] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.”