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topsyturvily

topsyturvily is the alternative form of topsy-turvily.

Meaning of topsy-turvily

Adverb

topsy-turvily (comparative more topsy-turvily, superlative most topsy-turvily)

  1. In a topsy-turvy manner, chaotically.
    • You frighten me a little by the order that is all through you. Even your sins appear to have unity, whereas I keep house topsy-turvily in my innermost being.1920, Mabel Wood Martin, chapter 7, in The Green God’s Pavilion, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 92

Forms of topsyturvily

comparativemore topsyturvily
superlativemost topsyturvily

Questions about topsyturvily

What is topsyturvily the alternative form of?
Topsyturvily is the alternative form of topsy-turvily.

Words near topsyturvily in the dictionary

  1. topsy-turvys
  2. topsyturn
  3. topsyturned
  4. topsyturning
  5. topsyturns
  6. topsyturvily
  7. topsyturviness
  8. topsyturvy
  9. topsyturvydom
  10. topsyturvydoms
  11. topt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: topsyturvily (page history and authors); topsy-turvily (page history and authors). 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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