Meanings
- not comparableWith the inner and outer surfaces reversed.
Brian Rosenworcel... was wearing gray Crocs and an inside-out T-shirt.
2009 September 7, The New Yorker, page 252 more examples
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 31This force is all that prevents the blades from pointing straight up like an inside-out umbrella.
1932 April, Michigan Technic, page 6Synonyms: extroverted · Antonyms: right-side-out
- not comparablehobbiesDescribing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.
...cracking an ‘inside-out’ backhand past Rahim on the set point...
1977 March 15, The Washington Post, page D51 more example
Kyrgios hits a thumping inside-out forehand to Raonic's weaker wing, the backhand.
2014 July 2, The Daily Telegraph, Sports Sect., p. 6
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of sidelong.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivewith the inside surface on the outside
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Latin inversus
- inversuswith the inside turned to be on the outside
Norwegian Bokmål innsiden ut
- innsiden utwith the inside turned to be on the outside
Polish na lewą stronę
- na lewą stronęwith the inside turned to be on the outside
Spanish tener/con lo de adentro afuera, (sacado/vuelto) de/al revés
- tener/con lo de adentro afuerawith the inside turned to be on the outside
- (sacado/vuelto) de/al revéswith the inside turned to be on the outside
Swedish ut och in
- ut och inwith the inside turned to be on the outside
Cite this entry
inside-out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inside-out
“inside-out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inside-out. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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