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UK
/ˈɒbvɜːs/
]
[ US /əbˈvɝs/ ]
[ US /əbˈvɝs/ ]
NOUN
- the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
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the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
the obverse of this issue
How To Use obverse In A Sentence
- Think of this as the obverse of 1970s-style stagflation, which brought us little or no growth, high inflation and high interest rates at the same time.
- It was an oddly sly glance, as though suddenly he were a different person -- or rather I was seeing the obverse of his personality. HIGH STAND
- She had begun to realize, to get a hint of what was going on, that perhaps she was witnessing an obverse courtship. DANSVILLE
- False humility and its obverse, arrogance, are equally unpleasant.
- It would help to ascertain the temporal relationship between the inscriptions on the reverse and the quota list on the obverse.
- Snooping women got caught up, she writes, in ‘the seamy obverse of elite inquiry.’
- It is the one baht coin with the King's portrait on the obverse and the three-headed elephant on the reverse.
- For if consummation was the obverse side of the coin at Niagara, death or the prospect of death was the reverse.
- ‘Rock’ has been seen as the obverse of ‘pop’, though there was never a clear stylistic distinction.
- The obverse is the same as on the smaller coins, but the reverse is different.
