inverted

Speech parts

1. inverted - Adjective

2. inverted - Verb

4. inverted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

anatropous epsilon over turn opposite reverse confused contrary reversed inverse upset backward inversion reversal reciprocal
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Antonyms

soon easily immediately simply directly exactly
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Phrases with the word

mirror-inverted manner inverted exclamation mark be inverted inverted arch inverted chord half inverted

Examples

A 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

Close letter words and terms

invertebrate invertebrate foot invertebrated inverted arch inverted box pleat inverted breve