perverse

Meaning

Adj

1. Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
2. Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
3. Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
4. Wayward; vexing; contrary.
5. Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

Noun

A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.

Verb

To pervert.

Synonyms

obstinate

wicked

perverted

stubborn

contrary

depraved

wayward

wrong

quirky

odd

refractory

hard to understand

untoward

intractable

crooked

distorted

pigheaded

do violence

cross-grained

adverse

froward

abnormal

treacherous

kinky

vicious

wilful

rebellious

recalcitrant

reprobate

misguided

naughty

nontrivial

obduracy

obdurate

oblique

outrageous

overbearing

pertinacious

pervert

preposterous

reversed

roughshod

selfish

self-willed

sick

🤢

sinister

stiff-necked

stupid

twisted

uncontrollable

unfavourable

unprincipled

unruly

aberrant

wrong-headed

wry

contrarious

unable to be honest

untractable

unyielding

bad

👎

bestial

confused

😕

contradict

contradictory

corrupt

crafty

cross grained

devious

disobedient

disregard

dogged

evil

flighty

forward

grasping

hardened

headstrong

heterodox

illusion

impious

incorrect

incurable

inverted

irreconcilable

irreligious

mean

mischievous

Translations

pervers

perverso

👎

verdorven

sapık

pervers

pervers

abartig

pervertido

verkehrt

anormal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɚˈvɝs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: perverse

In summary

From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).