(Usually followed by `to') strongly opposed.
Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom.
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Examples for "averse"
Examples for "averse"
1The resulting nuclear crisis sent risk-averse sentiment coursing through global financial markets.
2But borrowing costs remained elevated given the broader risk-averse sentiment across markets.
3The election outcome in the euro zone saw some investors turning risk-averse.
4Bonds are seen as relative safe havens when investors become risk averse.
5Perhaps the EU is relaxed and risk-loving, while the UK is risk-averse.
1Analysts say the army is loath to step into the political fray.
2William knows he ought to go home, but he's loath to leave.
3The heart cries out fiercely for its recompense; is loath to wait.
4Instantly, nothing loath, he found himself in the midst of the fighting.
5It fights a titanic struggle, for winter is loath to let go.
1I was always interested in chickens, and dosed all the indisposed as:
2The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened.
3If the watchman found him again, he'd just say he was indisposed.
4Write him that I am indisposed, and that will end the matter.
5The Commission feels indisposed to initiate any movement looking to its suspension.
1Keep this antipathetic relationship and begin again but now include the action.
2Nor did the two often meet socially since their natures were antipathetic.
3As to Costa, I confess that he was always antipathetic to me.
4Probably it was some family bond that united two such antipathetic natures.
5Nothing is more antipathetic to me than a coarse and ignorant anglophobia.
1But with dissimilitudes no conjunction can be effected, because they are antipathetical.
2To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage-notto call it anything stronger-waspositively antipathetical.
3But of all Orientals, the most antipathetical companion to an Englishman is, I believe, an East-Indian.
4He was an antipathetical being, with a peculiar power and gift of treading on everybody's tenderest place.
1Steel was nothing loth to find himself in the fresh air again.
2Sinti in public positions are still loth to admit to their ethnicity.
3No fear of that.' Lionel was loth to put his playmate down.
4But no one was in sight, and he was loth to move.
5The miners seemed loth to eat, being excited by the gold nuggets.
6Moreover, he was loth to be thus disturbed in his sombre reverie.
7They are loth to leave it, and would ever enter it again.
8And then I very little marvel that they are loth to die.
9I am loth to put you away, but it rests with yourself.
10As a rule men are loth to send their fathers to death.
11Hubert, nothing loth, told the story with which our readers are acquainted.
12Upon my word, I am loth to kill so fair a fool.
13Our adieux paid to Captain Boyton, no one seems loth to land.
14He was loth to allow Lady Merton to enter, but Elizabeth persisted.
15The approach of Christmas finds one loth to leave one's usual haunts.
16Mr Greenleaf, nothing loth, sat down and drew Marian to his knee.
Loth per variant geogràfica