reversed

Speech parts

1. reversed - Adjective

2. reversed - Verb

4. reversed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Reverse

Turned side for side, or end for end; changed to the contrary; specifically (Bot. & Zool.), sinistrorse or sinistral; as, a reversed, or sinistral, spiral or shell.

Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

opposite reverse contrary backward converse inverted upside down backwards upturned overturned reverted flipped transposed in reverse back
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Antonyms

directly forward improved cultivated civilized unturned
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Phrases with the word

sides reversed is reversed direction turn be in a reversed situation reversed the charges all rights reversed

Anagrams

deserver reserved

Examples

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely. Mary Pickford

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" Martin Luther King Jr.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. Francis Parkman

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. Theodore C. Sorensen

Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this Administration's rollback of criminal enforcement. Donald Trump

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. Wisława Szymborska

Close letter words and terms

reverse-inverted full nelson reverse-sear reverse-transmigratory neutrophil reversed direction turn reversed pall reversed phase