Usually means: Expressing contrast or opposition.
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  1. adversative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adversative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adversative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adversative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adversative: Vocabulary.com
  6. adversative: Wordnik
  7. adversative: Wiktionary
  8. adversative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. adversative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. adversative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Adversative, adversative: Dictionary.com
  12. Adversative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. adversative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. adversative: Rhymezone
  15. Adversative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. adversative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. adversative: Free Dictionary
  18. adversative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. adversative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. adversative: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. adversative: Merriam-Webster.com

(Note: See adversatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (adversative)

adjective:  (linguistics) Expressing opposition or difference.
adjective:  (linguistics) Expressing adverse effect.
noun:  (rare, dated) Something, particularly a clause or conjunction, which is adversative.

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