Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inside-out en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɪnsaɪdˈaʊt/

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete, rare) Synonym of sidelong.
    • ...with a nudge of the elbow, and an inside-out squint of his eyes... 1850 May, The New Monthly Magazine & Humourist, page 111:
  2. (not-comparable) With the inner and outer surfaces reversed.
    • These curious gloves... have two thumbs, so that by an inside-out process they can get another pair of gloves when the palm becomes worn out. 1893 May, Temple Bar, page 31:
    • Brian Rosenworcel... was wearing gray Crocs and an inside-out T-shirt. 2009 September 7, The New Yorker, page 25:
    • This force is all that prevents the blades from pointing straight up like an inside-out umbrella. 1932 April, Michigan Technic, page 6:
  3. (not-comparable) Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.
    • Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand. 2014 July 2, The Daily Telegraph, Sports Sect., p. 6
    • ...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point... 1977 March 15, The Washington Post, page D5:

Antonyms

right-side-out

Deriveds

inside-outness

Synonyms

extroverted (with reversed inner & outer surfaces) · sidelong

Translations (7)

es tener/con lo de adentro afuera (with the inside turned to be on the outside) · sv ut och in (with the inside turned to be on the outside) · gu ઊલટું (with the inside turned to be on the outside) · pl na lewą stronę (with the inside turned to be on the outside) · la inversus (with the inside turned to be on the outside) · es (sacado/vuelto) de/al revés (with the inside turned to be on the outside) · nb innsiden ut (with the inside turned to be on the outside)

inside-out en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɪnsaɪdˈaʊt/

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of inside out.
    alt of inside out
    • For the purposes of getting organized you need to turn the do’nut inside-out in your mind, so that the hole is filled in and the empty space is on the outside – if you can conceive of that. 1990, Charles Handy, “The Inside-out Doughnut”, in Inside Organizations: 21 Ideas for Managers, London: BBC Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 56: