About The Word Perverse
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Perverse
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What's The Definition Of Perverse?
[adj] marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
[adj] resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [adj] marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict; "took perverse satisfaction in foiling her plans" Synonyms | Synonyms for Perverse: contrary | corrupt | depraved | disobedient | immoral | negative | obstinate | perverted | reprobate | wayward Related Terms | Find terms related to Perverse: aberrant | abroad | adamant | adrift | adversary | adversative | adverse | adversive | alien | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | antagonistic | anti | antipathetic | antithetic | antonymous | askew | astray | at cross-purposes | at fault | awkward | awry | bad-tempered | balancing | balky | bearish | beside the mark | bilious | bitchy | breakaway | bulky | cankered | cantankerous | captious | churlish | clashing | clumsy | compensating | competitive | con | conflicting | confronting | contentious | contradicting | contradictory | contradistinct | contrapositive | contrarious | contrary | contrasted | converse | corrupt | counter | counteractant | counteracting | counteractive | counterbalancing | counterpoised | countervailing | counterworking | crabbed | crabby | cranky | cross | cross-grained | crosswise | crotchety | crusty | cumbersome | cussed | dead against | deceptive | defective | degenerate | delusive | depraved | deviant | deviational | deviative | difficult | disaccordant | disagreeable | discordant | discrepant | dissentient | dissident | distorted | enemy | errant | erring | erroneous | excitable | eyeball to eyeball | fallacious | false | faultful | faulty | feisty | flawed | fractious | froward | grouchy | headstrong | heretical | heterodox | hostile | huffish | huffy | hulking | hulky | illogical | ill-tempered | illusory | impractical | improper | inconsistent | inconvenient | incorrect | inflexible | inimical | intractable | inverse | irascible | irregular | irritable | mean | miscreant | mulish | nefarious | negative | nonconformist | noncooperative | not right | not true | obdurate | obstinate | obstreperous | obverse | off | off the track | opponent | opposed | opposing | opposite | oppositional | oppositive | oppugnant | ornery | out | overthwart | peccant | peevish | pertinacious | perverted | petulant | pigheaded | ponderous | putrid | quarrelsome | reactionary | recalcitrant | refractory | renitent | repugnant | resistant | restive | reverse | revolutionary | rival | rotten | self-contradictory | self-willed | snappish | spiteful | spleeny | splenetic | squared off | stiff-necked | straying | stubborn | stuffy | sulky | sullen | surly | testy | touchy | ugly | unbending | uncooperative | unfactual | unfair | unfavorable | unfriendly | unhandy | unhealthy | unmanageable | unorthodox | unpropitious | unproved | unreasonable | untrue | unwieldy | unyielding | villainous | waspish | wayward | wide | wrong | wrongheaded See Also | Perverse In Webster's Dictionary \Per*verse"\, a. [L. perversus turned the wrong way,
not right, p. p. of pervertereto turn around, to overturn:
cf. F. pervers. See {Pervert}.]
1. Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the
right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
The only righteous in a word perverse. --Milton.
2. Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence,
wayward; vexing; contrary.
To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. --Dryden.
Syn: Froward; untoward; wayward; stubborn; ungovernable;
intractable; cross; petulant; vexatious.
Usage: {Perverse}, {Froward}. One who is froward is
capricious, and reluctant to obey. One who is perverse
has a settled obstinacy of will, and likes or dislikes
by the rule of contradiction to the will of others.
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