Thesaurus: obverse

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1. a. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
2. a. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
3. a. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
4. n. the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides
5. n. the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design
6. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf. 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.
7. Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than thetop, as a leaf.
8. j:27/n:73 n. the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides n. the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design