Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted:
Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted:
Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary:

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Tom is perverse.

    Том збоченець. — deniko

    ruТом извращенец. — odexed

    deTom ist pervers. — Felixjp

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  2. Don't be so perverse!

    deSei nicht so pervers! — Vortarulo

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  3. I just bet you were thinking something perverse just now.

    ruЯ просто уверен, что ты только что думал о чём-то пошлом. — Lenin_1917

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Meaning

5 senses

  1. Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.

    pervers

    извращённыйizvraščónnyj

  2. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.

    pervers, abartig, widernatürlich

    противоречащийprotivorečaščij

  3. Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.

More meanings 2

  1. Wayward; vexing; contrary.

  2. Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

More definitions
  • marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict
  • resistant to guidance or discipline
  • deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good

Origin

From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“tho

From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).

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Forms

more perverse/perverser, most perverse/perversest

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

3 antonyms
innocentB1tractableamenable

Word family

8 related words
Relatedperversenessperversity
Derivedperverbperverselyperversivepolymorphous-perversepolymorph-perverseunperverse

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pervpervadepervasiveC2perversionpervertpesky

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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