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inverted

inverted adjective: having the order or direction exchanged; for example, turned upside down, reversed, or in any other way opposite or contrary and swapped. Also the simple past and past participle of invert.

Adjective

inverted

  1. Having the order or direction exchanged; for example, turned upside down, reversed, or in any other way opposite or contrary and swapped.
    • Phil was slumped over the edge of the mattress, inverted, watching her dress. He seemed to have a thing for that. She didn't mind; after eight years, she and Harry had long since ceased to ogle each other after bed. He'd taken longer than she had, but then, she knew he had more to look at than she...2024 September 12, HarryBlank, “Nothing Changes”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024
  2. Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
  3. Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
  4. (dated) Homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
    • Among the Normans, everywhere, homosexuality was markedly prevalent; the spread of sodomy in France about the eleventh century is attributed to the Normans, and their coming seems to have rendered it at times almost fashionable, at all events at court. In England, William Rufus was undoubtedly...1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 2
  5. (Internet, conspiracy theories) Assumed to be transgender, in the terms of transvestigation.

Also used as

inverted is also the simple past and past participle of invert.

inverted meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Odia

inverted in Hindi

upside down
उल्टा ulṭā, विलोमित vilomit

inverted in Bengali

উল্টানো হয়েছে

inverted in Gujarati

ઊંધી

inverted in Odia

ଓଲଟପାଲଟ
More languagesFewer languages
inverted in Malay
terbalik

Examples of inverted in a sentence

  • Phil was slumped over the edge of the mattress, inverted, watching her dress.2024 September 12, HarryBlank, “Nothing Changes”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
  • In England, William Rufus was undoubtedly inverted, as later on were Edward II, James I, and, perhaps, though not in so conspicuous a degree, William III.1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 2:

Words formed from inverted

Phrases with inverted

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Questions about inverted

What does inverted mean?
Inverted means having the order or direction exchanged; for example, turned upside down, reversed, or in any other way opposite or contrary and swapped.
What is inverted in Hindi?
Inverted in Hindi is उल्टा (ulṭā), विलोमित (vilomit). See Inverted meaning in Hindi.
How do you use inverted in a sentence?
Phil was slumped over the edge of the mattress, inverted, watching her dress.
What part of speech is inverted?
Inverted is an adjective.

Words near inverted in the dictionary

  1. invertebrae
  2. invertebral
  3. invertebrate
  4. invertebrated
  5. invertebrates
  6. inverted
  7. inverted breve
  8. inverted breves
  9. inverted caret
  10. inverted carets
  11. inverted circumflex

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inverted (page history and authors); inverted (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inverted (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inverted (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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