Meaning
1 senses(archaic, nonstandard)To pervert.
Examples
6 sentencesTom is perverse.
Том збоченець. — deniko
ruТом извращенец. — odexed
deTom ist pervers. — Felixjp
I just bet you were thinking something perverse just now.
ruЯ просто уверен, что ты только что думал о чём-то пошлом. — Lenin_1917
It's perverse that the lives of four rich guys are worth more than hundreds of refugees.
Don't be so perverse!
deSei nicht so pervers! — Vortarulo
Layla was victim to Sami's every perverse whim.
Origin
From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoFrom 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
perverses, perversing, perversed, perversedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary 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.