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Inverse

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

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Backward 84% connected

Alt. of Backwards

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Backward 84% connected

Alt. of Backwards

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Reciprocal 84% connected

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

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Reciprocal 84% connected

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

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Oppositeness 76% connected

The quality or state of being opposite.

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Opposition 76% connected

The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

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Reciprocal 76% connected

Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

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Opposite 92% connected

Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

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Reverse 92% connected

Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

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Direct 94% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Direct 94% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Amongst preposition · 78% connection

Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

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Anatropous adjective · 78% connection

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropo…

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Antiperistaltic adjective · 78% connection

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

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Balance noun · 78% connection

harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is…

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Between preposition · 78% connection

Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between s…

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Converse adjective · 78% connection

Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

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Conversely adverb · 78% connection

with the terms of the relation reversed; "conversely, not all women are mothers"

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Correlate noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative.

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Correlation noun · 78% connection

Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place…

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Correlative adjective · 78% connection

Having or indicating a reciprocal relation.

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Countermarch verb · 78% connection

To march back, or to march in reversed order.

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Cross adjective · 78% connection

Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as…

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Debased adjective · 78% connection

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

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Hysteron proteron unknown · 78% connection

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

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Interrelated adjective · 78% connection

Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

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Interrelation noun · 78% connection

Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.

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Inversion noun · 78% connection

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition.

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Inverted adjective · 78% connection

being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; "a quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma"; "an upside-down c…

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