adversative

adversative has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• a.. Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.
• n.. An adversative word.
• a.. expressing antithesis or opposition; "the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'"