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upturned

Syllables: up·turned

upturned adjective: turned over; inverted; capsized.

Adjective

upturned (comparative more upturned, superlative most upturned)

  1. Turned over; inverted; capsized.
  2. Turned up at the end.
  3. Looking upwards, turned upwards.
    • Glinda leaned forward and kissed the sweet, upturned face of the loving little girl.1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

upturned meaning in Urdu and Bengali

upturned in Bengali

উল্টে যাওয়া, বিপরীত, উল্টানো, শেষে ওপরের দিকে বাঁকানো, ওপরের দিকে তাকানো, ওপরের দিকে ফেরানো

Forms of upturned

comparativemore upturned
superlativemost upturned

Origin of upturned

From up- + turned.

Questions about upturned

What does upturned mean?
Upturned means turned over; inverted; capsized.
What is upturned in Urdu?
Upturned in Urdu is پٹ. See Upturned meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is upturned?
Upturned is an adjective.

Words near upturned in the dictionary

  1. uptrending
  2. uptrends
  3. uptune
  4. uptunes
  5. upturn
  6. upturned
  7. upturneth
  8. upturning
  9. upturnings
  10. upturns
  11. uptwirl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upturned (page history and authors); upturned (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upturned (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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