obverse

About 0.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Turned or facing toward the observer.

   The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.

2. adjective Corresponding; complementary.

   When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.

3. adjective Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.

   an obverse leaf

4. noun The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.

   The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.

5. noun A proposition obtained by obversion.

Similar words

front face right-side-out opposite frontwards retroverted en face introrse sunward anteverted

Often followed by

of and side is the a die type dies

Word family

obversely obverses