perverse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).
Inflected forms:
form: more perverse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: perverser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perverse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perversest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
pos: adj
examples: Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity.
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.
The diverted or perverse way is also not an easy path to walk. It is rightly called “crooked” and “twisting.”
gloss: Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
pos: adj
examples: Looking at Barbara one would have considerable difficulty detecting a perverse side to her nature. Her expression was demure, shy, and apprehensive. But she recognized the demonic aspect of her personality and admitted it.
 I felt most alive when I felt most perverse. At college, sleeping with boys had a perverse quality. I slept with a boy friend of one of my girl friends, and I was proud of it. I bragged about it because I had done something perverse. Another time, I slept with a man, fat and ugly, who paid me for it. I was very proud. I felt I had the ability to do something different.
gloss: Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
pos: adj
gloss: Wayward; vexing; contrary.
pos: adj
examples: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […].
gloss: Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.
pos: adj
Synonyms: contrary
cross
froward
intractable
petulant
stubborn
ungovernable
untoward
vexatious
vexing
wayward
Antonyms: innocent
tractable
amenable
Related words: bite off one's nose to spite one's face
Derived words: perverb
perverse incentive
perversely
perverseness
perversity
perversive
polymorphous-perverse
polymorph-perverse
unperverse
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: извратен
roman: izvraten
lang: Bulgarian
word: перверзен
roman: perverzen
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: akis
lang: Czech
word: perverzní
lang: Danish
word: pervers
lang: Esperanto
word: perversa
lang: Finnish
word: perverssi
lang: Finnish
word: kieroutunut
lang: French
word: pervers
lang: German
word: pervers
lang: Haitian Creole
word: pèvès
lang: Hungarian
word: perverz
lang: Japanese
word: 天邪鬼
roman: amanojaku
lang: Japanese
word: 意地悪
roman: ijiwaru
lang: Macedonian
word: изо́пачен
roman: izópačen
lang: Macedonian
word: на́стран
roman: nástran
lang: Macedonian
word: пе́рверзен
roman: pérverzen
lang: Old English
word: afulīċ
lang: Old English
word: ġedwolen
lang: Persian
word: بلاده
roman: balâde
lang: Romanian
word: pervers
lang: Russian
word: извращённый
roman: izvraščónnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: perverzan
lang: Spanish
word: perverso
lang: Turkish
word: sapık
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آزغین
roman: azgın
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اكری
roman: eğri
lang: Bulgarian
word: опърничав
roman: opǎrničav
lang: Bulgarian
word: вироглав
roman: viroglav
lang: Finnish
word: uppiniskainen
lang: Finnish
word: jääräpäinen
lang: German
word: pervers
lang: German
word: abartig
lang: German
word: widernatürlich
lang: Japanese
word: 旋毛曲がり
roman: tsumujimagari
lang: Macedonian
word: твр́доглав
roman: tvŕdoglav
lang: Macedonian
word: проти́вречен
roman: protívrečen
lang: Māori
word: korokē
lang: Māori
word: hōkeke
lang: Māori
word: kōrori
lang: Russian
word: противоречащий
roman: protivorečaščij
lang: Spanish
word: protervo