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inverted

adjective

1 inverted

Being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed:
— A quotation mark is sometimes called an inverted comma.

synonym: upside-down.

Roget 218: inverted etc. v.; wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out, upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous [Fr.].    inverse; ... show more

2 inverted

of a plant ovule Completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk.

synonym: anatropous.


Moby thesaurus: arsy-varsy, ass over elbows, back-to-front, backwards, capsized, chiastic, everted, gay, homoerotic, homophile, hyperbatic, inside out, introverted, invaginated, inversed, outside in, palindromic, queer, resupinate, retroverted ... show more.

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