usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
"antipathetic to new ideas"
"averse to taking risks"
"loath to go on such short notice"
"clearly indisposed to grant their request"
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averse
There's a proud modesty in merit!
Averse from asking, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gifts it asks. [ Dryden ]
Love, well thou knowest, no partnership allows; Cupid averse rejects divided vows. [ Prior ]
It is averse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]
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