Meaning & use
obverse
The side of a coin or medal that bears the main design, as opposed to the reverse.
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The obverse of the coin showed a portrait of the queen facing right.
Collectors examine the obverse first, since it usually carries the more detailed engraving.
A note on using this word
Obverse can also describe the more prominent or immediately apparent side of any two-sided argument or fact.
Words with a similar meaning
facefront
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Words with an opposite meaning
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Facing the viewer, or forming the counterpart to something already stated.
Poverty is, in a sense, the obverse condition of the wealth concentrated in the same city.
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