1. inverted - Adjective
2. inverted - Verb
4. inverted - Adjective Satellite
of Invert
Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. Samuel Johnson
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! William Cowper
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help --for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. Omar Khayyám
In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off. Ilana Mercer
In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king. Michel Foucault
Any cipher can be broken, any code can be compromised. But the most exact academic knowledge of a language gives no clue to its slang, its colloquial allusions, its half statements, over statements, and inverted meanings. Robert A. Heinlein