obverse
obverse is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
- 2.Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief. H. Spencer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advance
- advanced
- ahead
- anterior
- anteriority
- beak
- before
- bend
- bow
- brow
- coin
- come
- confront
- countenance
- disc
- disk
- divine
- est
- facade
- face
- facia
- first
- fore
- foreground
- forehead
- foremost
- forepart
- forwards
- frons
- front
- frontage
- frontal
- frontispiece
- guard
- imago
- indices
- jib
- lee
- line
- medal
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is obverse.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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