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synonyms for inversely

  • about-face
  • again
  • backwards
  • contra
  • contrarily
  • contrariwise
  • contrary
  • conversely
  • far from it
  • in reverse
  • mutatis mutandis
  • on the contrary
  • oppositely
  • reversed
  • the opposite way
  • the other way around
  • turn about
  • upside down
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How to use inversely in a sentence

Sundog has observed that a person’s willingness to be seen nude is often inversely proportional to other people’s desire to see them sans clothes.
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So I would say the maturity of the actual company we invest in is inversely correlated with our knowledge.
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In the case of education, for example, good health practices seemed to be inversely associated with academic achievement.
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On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.
DRACULABRAM STOKER
Shall composition and decomposition be reduced to some one of these kinds of motion, or shall we look at this process inversely?
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He showed that the velocity of a signal through a given core was inversely proportional to the square of the length of the core.
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If the temperature of a gas be kept constant, its pressure or elastic force will vary inversely as the volume it occupies.
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Pressure in a gas may be created by increasing its temperature and inversely heat may be created by pressure.
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The law being similar to that with strings, the vibration rates of air columns are inversely proportional to their lengths.
PHYSICSWILLIS EUGENE TOWER
The intensity of illumination of a surface is inversely proportional to the square of its distance from the source of light.
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WORDS RELATED TO INVERSELY

  • about-face
  • again
  • backwards
  • contra
  • contrarily
  • contrariwise
  • contrary
  • conversely
  • far from it
  • in reverse
  • inversely
  • mutatis mutandis
  • on the contrary
  • oppositely
  • reversed
  • the opposite way
  • the other way around
  • turn about
  • upside down
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.