perverted
English
Adjective
perverted (comparative more perverted, superlative most perverted)
- Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
- (sometimes derogatory) Of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
- Synonym: (less formal) pervy
- Misrepresented, altered or distorted.
- (sciences, obsolete) Reversed in chirality; flipped
- 1873, James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise of Electricity and Magnetism, Clarendon Press:
- The reflection of an object in a mirror image is a perverted image of the object.
- 1906, Henry Smith Carhart, Physics for University Students, page 232:
- The right hand may be considered the perverted image of the left.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- pervalicious (delicious + perverted)
- pervertedly
- pervertedness
Translations
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