Vocabulary
Adverse
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable.
Urdu meaning
مختلف، برعکس، الٹا، ناموافق
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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This could push the world into a recession.The adverse economic impact on countries, of course, varies, with those in the Global South and other net energy importers affected the most.
Dawn Editorials —
The fallout
— 2026-04-20
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The taxation of petroleum and imports has become an important fiscal anchor despite the adverse implications for businesses as well as less-affluent households in a tax system that is pivoting towards greater regressivity.
Dawn Editorials —
The burden of taxes
— 2026-04-18
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Once again, ordinary Pakistanis seem unable to keep their lives moving while the climate decides to take an adverse turn.
Dawn Editorials —
Winter chill
— 2026-01-28
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Rather than viewing emotional suffering as a natural response to adverse social and economic conditions, we are encouraged to see it as a pathology something inside the individual that needs fixing.
Dawn Editorials —
Mental health in a broken world
— 2026-01-12
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THE Asian Development Bank`s latest climate resilience financing for Pakistan should reinforce the country`s efforts towards building longer-term resilience to protect its people and economy from the adverse impacts of climate change.
Dawn Editorials —
Climate resilience
— 2026-01-01
Synonyms
unfavourable, disadvantageous, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfortunate, unlucky, untimely
Antonyms
favourable, beneficial, positive, friendly
Curator example
“taxes are having an adverse effect on production”
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