perversive
perversive adjective: tending to pervert.
Adjective
perversive (comparative more perversive, superlative most perversive)
- Tending to pervert.
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Forms of perversive
| comparative | more perversive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most perversive |
Origin of perversive
From Latin pervers-, the past participial stem of pervertō, + -ive.
Words that rhyme with perversive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
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- subversive
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about perversive
- What does perversive mean?
- Perversive means tending to pervert.
- What part of speech is perversive?
- Perversive is an adjective.
Words near perversive in the dictionary
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