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perverted

perverted adjective: deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct. Also the simple past and past participle of pervert.

Adjective

perverted (comparative more perverted, superlative most perverted)

  1. Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
  2. (derogatory, sometimes) Of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
    Synonyms:
    pervy, perverty
  3. Misrepresented, altered or distorted.
  4. (obsolete) Reversed in chirality; flipped.
    • The reflection of an object in a mirror image is a perverted image of the object.1873, James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise of Electricity and Magnetism, Clarendon Press
    • The right hand may be considered the perverted image of the left.1906, Henry Smith Carhart, Physics for University Students, page 232

Also used as

perverted is also the simple past and past participle of pervert.

perverted meaning in Kannada, Gujarati and Nepali

perverted in Kannada

ವಿಕೃತವಾದದ್ದು, ವಿಕೃತವಾದುದು

perverted in Gujarati

વિકૃત

perverted in Nepali

विकृत

Synonyms of perverted

Antonyms

Forms of perverted

comparativemore perverted
superlativemost perverted

Origin of perverted

From pervert + -ed.

Words formed from perverted

Questions about perverted

What does perverted mean?
Perverted means deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
What is perverted in Kannada?
Perverted in Kannada is ವಿಕೃತವಾದದ್ದು, ವಿಕೃತವಾದುದು. See Perverted meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is perverted?
Perverted is an adjective.

Words near perverted in the dictionary

  1. pervert
  2. pervert glasses
  3. pervert's row
  4. pervertable
  5. pervertables
  6. perverted
  7. pervertedly
  8. pervertedness
  9. perverter
  10. perverters
  11. pervertest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perverted (page history and authors); perverted (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); perverted (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); perverted (Nepali, 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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