Pervert

Quick meaning: Pervert is a noun meaning A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

Meaning

A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
2. (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
3. To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
4. to misinterpret designedly.
5. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
6. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.

Example Sentences

He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.

Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.

Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!

How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?

Word Forms

• perverts
• perverting
• perverted

Synonyms for pervert

Depending on context, synonyms include adulterate, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, detort, file.

Antonyms for pervert

Common opposites include fortify, moralize, purify, rectify, reform, spiritualize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include profane, deviate, deprave, degenerate, deviant, vitiate.

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