A curve that reverses the direction of something.

Roget 659: deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession etc. 287; retrogradation etc. 283^†; decrease etc. 36.    degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement; devolution; depravity etc. 945; demoralization, retrogression; masochism.    impairment, inquination^†, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration^†, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath^†; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation^†, poisoning, venenation^†, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy.    decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency^†; falling off etc. v.; caducity^†, decrepitude.    decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion, erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus^†, atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement etc. (destruction). 162; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron^†; vinefretter^†, vinegrub^†.    wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra [Lat.]; jade, plug, rackabones [U.S.], skate [U.S.]; tackey^†, tacky [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 374a: sex, sexuality, gender; male, masculinity, maleness etc. 373; female, femininity etc. 374.    sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking, marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge.    sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence; hots, horns [Coll.]; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.    masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self-abuse.    orgasm, climax, ejaculation.    sexiness, attractiveness; sensuality, voluptuousness.    [sexual intercourse outside of marriage] fornication, adultery.    [person who is sexy] sex symbol, sex goddess; stud, hunk.    one-night stand.    pornography, porn, porno; hardcore pornography, softcore pornography; pin-up, cheesecake; beefcake; [magazines with sexual photos], Playboy, Esquire, Hustler.    [unorthodox sexual activity] perversion, deviation, sexual abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality; sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism.    masochism, sado-masochism; incest.    ... show more

Roget 477: intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology^†; faith (supposition) 514.    sophistry, paralogy^†, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet^†, quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness etc. adj.; nonsense etc. 497; word sense, tongue sense.    false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning; petitio principii [Lat.], ignoratio elenchi [Lat.]; post hoc ergo propter hoc [Lat.]; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius [Lat.].    misjudgment etc. 481; false teaching etc. 538.    sophism, solecism, paralogism^†; quibble, quirk, elenchus^†, elench^†, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet^†; inconsistency, antilogy^†; a delusion, a mockery, and a snare" [Denman]; claptrap, cant, mere words; lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]. meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry; flaw in an argument; weak point, bad case.    overrefinement^†; hairsplitting etc. v.. ... show more

Roget 523: misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation^†, misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis^†; eisegesis^†; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake etc. 495.    misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration etc. 549; false coloring, false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification etc. (lying) 544.    ... show more

Roget 538: misteaching^†, misinformaton, misintelligence^†, misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion^†, misinstruction^†, misleading etc. v.; perversion, false teaching; sophistry etc. 477; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind.    [misteaching by government agents] propaganda, disinformation, agitprop; indoctrination.    ... show more

Roget 544: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception etc. 545; untruth etc. 546; guile; lying etc. 454; untruth etc. 546; guile; lying etc. v.. misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption^†; covin^†.    perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri [Lat.]; perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration etc. 549; prevarication, equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi etc. (lie) 546 [Lat.]; mystification etc. (concealment) 528; simulation etc. (imitation) 19; dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague^†.    sham; pretense, pretending, malingering.    lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, organized hypocrisy;" crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness^†, quackery; charlatanism^†, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum^†, bumcombe, flam; bam [Slang], flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy etc. (bad faith) 940; il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].    unfairness etc. (dishonesty) 940; artfulness etc. (cunning) 702; misstatement etc. (error) 495.    ... show more

Roget 988: impiety; sin etc. 945; irreverence; profaneness etc. adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) 544; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion^†, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.; pharisaism, precisianism^†; sabbatism^†, sabbatarianism^†; odium theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalism^†; bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws.    hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.    sinner etc. 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist^†; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite etc. (dissembler) 548; Tartufe^†, Mawworm^†.    bigot; saint [Iron.]; Pharisee; sabbatarian^†, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist^†, precisian^†, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado^†.    the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.    ... show more

Roget 546: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle^†, whopper; jhuth^†.    forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi [Lat.]; exaggeration etc. 549.    invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance etc. (imagination) 515; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.    press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549.    myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce.    irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation etc. (concealment) 528.    pretense, pretext; false plea etc. 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham etc. (deception) 545.    profession, empty words; Judas kiss etc. (hypocrisy) 544; disguise etc. (mask) 530.    ... show more

An aberrant sexual practice.

synonym: sexual perversion.

Polish: perwersyjność, perwersja

The action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use).