inverted en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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Having the order or direction exchanged; for example, turned upside down, reversed, or in any other way opposite or contrary and swapped.
Phil was slumped over the edge of the mattress, inverted, watching her dress. He seemed to have a thing for that. She didn't mind; after eight years, she and Harry had long since ceased to ogle each other after bed. He'd taken longer than she had, but then, she knew he had more to look at than she did.
2024 September 12, HarryBlank, “Nothing Changes”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2024:
- (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
- (of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
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(dated) Homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
Among the Normans, everywhere, homosexuality was markedly prevalent; the spread of sodomy in France about the eleventh century is attributed to the Normans, and their coming seems to have rendered it at times almost fashionable, at all events at court. In England, William Rufus was undoubtedly inverted, as later on were Edward II, James I, and, perhaps, though not in so conspicuous a degree, William III.
1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 2:
- (Internet, of a person, qualifier:conspiracy theories) Assumed to be transgender, in the terms of transvestigation.
Deriveds
inverted comma · inverted pentagram · uninverted · inverted circumflex · inverted index · inverted pall · invertedly · inverted hat · inverted totalitarianism · pseudoinverted · pall inverted · inverted exclamation point · inverted caret · inverted Jenny · inverted interrobang · inverted row · inverted question mark · inverted breve · inverted sugar · inverted snobbery · noninverted · inverted pyramid · inverted exclamation mark · invertedness · inverted mordent · inverted river delta
Translations (13)
ms terbalik (upside down) · it rovesciato (upside down) · hi उल्टा (upside down) · hi विलोमित (upside down) · bg преобърнат (upside down) · de invertiert (upside down) · sk opačný (upside down) · pl odwrócony (upside down) · ota وارون (upside down) · bg обърнат (upside down) · de umgekehrt (upside down) · la inversus (upside down) · sk obrátený (upside down)