Meanings
- Having the order or direction exchanged; for example, turned upside down, reversed, or in any other way opposite or contrary and swapped.
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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 - entertainmentHaving the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
- chemistryHaving its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
- datedhuman sciencesHomosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
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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 - Internetconspiracy theoriesAssumed to be transgender, in the terms of transvestigation.First known use 2010s
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of invert
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivebeing in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
adjective(of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian обърнат, преобърнат
- обърнат (obărnat)upside down
- преобърнат (preobărnat)upside down
French inversé, inversée
- inverséupside down
- inverséeupside down
German umgekehrt, invertiert
- umgekehrtupside down
- invertiertupside down
Hindi उल्टा, विलोमित
- उल्टा (ulṭā)upside down
- विलोमित (vilomit)upside down
Italian rovesciato
- rovesciatoupside down
Latin inversus
- inversusupside down
Malay terbalik
- terbalikupside down
Polish odwrócony
- odwróconyupside down
Slovak opačný, obrátený
- opačnýupside down
- obrátenýupside down
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Cite this entry
inverted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inverted
“inverted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inverted. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inverted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inverted.
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