Meaning

1 senses
  1. (archaic)A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom is perverse.

    Том збоченець. — deniko

    ruТом извращенец. — odexed

    deTom ist pervers. — Felixjp

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

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

  3. It's perverse that the lives of four rich guys are worth more than hundreds of refugees.

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  4. Don't be so perverse!

    deSei nicht so pervers! — Vortarulo

  5. Layla was victim to Sami's every perverse whim.

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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

plural: perverses
Singularperverse
Pluralperverses

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

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