Perverse

Quick meaning: Perverse is an adjective meaning Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.

Meaning

Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.

More Meanings

1. Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
2. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
3. Wayward; vexing; contrary.
4. (law, of a verdict) Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
5. (geometry) A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.
6. (nonstandard) To pervert.

Example Sentences

Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […].

The diverted or perverse way is also not an easy path to walk. It is rightly called “crooked” and “twisting.”

This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed.

But in the same sense are modern Nietzsche's screams against the perverse (diverted) diffusion of these elemental pleas to reason for “reasons,” for the reasons—and place—of our fall in nonsense.

Word Forms

• perverser
• perversest
• perverses
• perversing
• perversed

Synonyms for perverse

Depending on context, synonyms include contrary, cross, froward, intractable, petulant, stubborn.

Antonyms for perverse

Common opposites include innocent, tractable, amenable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wayward, contrary, perverted, obstinate, depraved, reprobate.

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