obverse

English

From Latin obversus, 1650s.

obverse (not comparable)

Turned or facing toward the observer.
Synonyms: facing, presenting

The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
Corresponding; complementary.
Synonyms: analogous, like, parallel, reciprocal

When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
(botany) Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
an obverse leaf

turned or facing toward the observer

Bulgarian: лицев (bg) (licev)
Catalan: anvers m
Dutch: voorkant (nl)
French: avers (fr) m, face (fr) f
Ido: averso (io)
Italian: dritto (it)
Norwegian: vendt fram
Russian: лицевой (ru) (licevoj), фронтальный (ru) (frontalʹnyj), аверсный (ru) (aversnyj)
Spanish: anverso (es) m
Ukrainian: лицьовий m (lycʹovyj), аверсний m (aversnyj)
Vietnamese: phải (vi)

corresponding; complementary

Examples (logic)
“All men are mortal” → “No man is immortal”

obverse (plural obverses)

The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
Antonym: reverse

The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.
(logic) A proposition obtained by obversion.
- 1986, Reginald Shepherd, “On Not Being White”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 48:
  White racism says that all black people are the same, with no right to or understanding of these words. Too much of what I have seen of black society simply assumes the obverse, that black people should have no interest in these words, that these words are irrelevant to or destructive of "black culture."

the heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal

obverse