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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
stubbornly opposed to what is expected or requested of one, or marked by or inclined toward such an attitude.
Knowing how perverse he can be, I'm not surprised he refused to wear a tie to the funeral.She seems to take perverse pleasure in disappointing her parents.- synonyms:
- contrary, willful, wrongheaded
- antonyms:
- accommodating, cooperative
- similar words:
- balky, contumacious, cross-grained, headstrong, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded, rebellious, stubborn
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| definition 2: |
tending to or marked by wickedness or evil; corrupt or sinful.
The leader treated his people with perverse cruelty.- synonyms:
- aberrant, depraved, perverted
- similar words:
- corrupt, deviant, evil, iniquitous, profligate, queer, sick, wanton, wicked
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| definition 3: |
irritable or peevish.
He didn't sleep well last night, so he's liable to be perverse this morning.- synonyms:
- cantankerous, irritable, peevish, petulant
- similar words:
- atrabilious, bad-tempered, cranky, cross, grouchy, huffy, irascible, quarrelsome, querulous, short-tempered, splenetic, sulky, testy, touchy
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| related words: |
contradictory, difficult, disobedient, perverted, thwart, wayward |
adverb + (adj.)perverse
apparently, downright, morally, polymorphously, rather, seemingly, sexually, slightly, wonderfully
(adj.)perverse
+ adverb
politically
(adj.)perverse
+ noun
act,
amusement,
attraction,
beauty,
comfort,
consequence,
curiosity,
delight,
desire,
display,
effect,
entertainment,
fascination,
fashion,
habit,
humor,
imagination,
impulse,
incentive,
inclination,
ingenuity,
innocence,
institutionalization,
irony,
joke,
joy,
logic,
longing,
magic,
nature,
outcome,
passion,
pleasure,
pride,
propensity,
prurience,
regulation,
result,
satisfaction,
sculpture,
sense,
sort,
subject,
subsidy,
taste,
tendency,
triangle,
twist
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| derivations: |
perversely (adv.), perverseness (n.) |
The word perverse
contains the following parts:
per-
Latin
prefix
that means through, throughout; very
  Example words:
impermeable, impermissible, imperturbable, impervious, parvenu, perambulate, perceive, perception, percolate, perennial, perfect, perfidy, perfoliate, perforate, perform, perfunctory, perjury, permanent, permeate, permissible, permission, permit, permute, pernicious, perorate, perpetual, perplex, persecute, persevere, persist, persistent, perspective, perspicacious, perspicuous, perspire, persuade, persuasion, persuasive, pertinacious, perturb, peruse, pervade, perverse, pervert, pervious, semipermeable
vers, vert
Latin
root
that means to turn; to be occupied with
Example words:
adversary, adversative, adverse, adversity, advert, advertent, advertise, advertisement, animadversion, animadvert, anniversary, averse, aversion, avert, controversial, controversy, controvert, conversable, conversant, conversation, converse1, convert, converter, convertible, covert, divers, diverse, diversify, diversion, diversity, divert, divorce, eversion, evert, extraversion, extroversion, extrovert, inadvertence, inadvertent, intervertebral, introversion, introvert, inverse, inversion, invert, invertebrate, inverter, irreversible, malversation, obverse, perverse, perversion, perversity, pervert, reconvert, revers, reversal, reverse, reversible, reversion, revert, subversion, subvert, tergiversate, transversal, transverse, traverse, universalism, universality, universe, university, versatile, versatility, verse, versicle, version, verso, versus, vertebral, vertebrate, vertex, vertical, verticil, vertiginous, vice versa, vortex
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