Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Turned in a contrary direction; turned upside down; reversed in order; hence, opposite; contrary.
- Specifically— In heraldry, turned in the other way from what is usual: as, the hands inverted when the fingers point downward. Also invertant.
- In botany, opposed to the normal or usual position, as ovules attached to the apex of the ovary or its cells, or as flowers with the normally dorsal side ventral.
- It geology, lying apparently in inverse or reverse order, as strata which have been folded back on each other by the intrusion of igneous rocks or by crust movements.
Wiktionary
- adj. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order or direction; characterized by inversion; turned upside down; reversed; opposite; contrary.
- adj. music (of a chord) Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher
- adj. chemistry (of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of invert.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.
- adj. (Geol.) Situated apparently in reverse order, as strata when folded back upon themselves by upheaval.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed
- adj. (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
Examples
“He took some of this boiled infusion that I have been speaking of, and by the use of a mercurial bath -- a kind of trough used in laboratories -- he deftly inverted a vessel containing the infusion into the mercury, so that the latter reached a little beyond the level of the mouth of the _inverted_ vessel.”
“Wolin uses the term inverted totalitarianism to describe our descent into despotism.”
“Prins described what she called the inverted pyramid of profits erected on the backs of these sub-prime loans.”
“In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 the title inverted the last two digits of 1948, the year when it was published, he imagined a world divided into three despotic superstates—Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia—permanently at war with one another.”
“Civilisation is a word we only really see nowadays in inverted commas, but it's a useful concept when thinking about history.”
The Guardian: My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for
“That egged us on; we became festival promoters, in inverted commas.”
“Bettis and McKee later reteamed on the Masters of Horror episode Sick Girl and the short film Blue Like You, as well as in inverted roles when Bettis directed McKee in Roman.”
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“Lonely' in inverted comma because i made myself feel that way.”
Pantsbomber psyche laid bare in messageboard archives (corrected) Boing Boing
“Why do you put the word ‘underclass’ in inverted commas, Rob?”
“Chickens are placed in inverted red traffic cones after they are killed so their blood can run down.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inverted’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Writing
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words of weirdness
Weird words that are weird
fjord, rape, carnage, bubbles, wizz, screamery, dominion, panophobia, poopie, gremlin, fuzz, obtain and 103 more...
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Poetrie: Appeal to the Grammarians
Oh yes. Yes indeed.
Appeal to the Grammarians
by Paul Violi
We, the naturally hopeful,
Need a simple sign
For the myriad ways we're capsized.
We wh...sneeze, veer, cannoli, espresso, odyssey, outset, pocket, underfoot, dumb, limp, inverted, incredulity and 10 more...
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Pleats
There's more than one way to pleat a cat.
plait, plicature, plication, crinkle, crease, rimple, crimp, ruche, ruck, goffer, fanfold, Wateau and 18 more...
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These words are USEFUL and/or INTERESTING.
diurnally, asunder, equivocates, acuity, inert, inverted, averted, subverted, vituperous, delta, refraction, Faustian and 30 more...
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hugslife's Words
immure, torpid, sanguine, fagin, jejune, anomie, occult, motorik, chooglin, jeremiad, cryptozoology, plinth and 61 more...
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cadence, fracture, utter, regression, incessant, inverted, trashy, suspend, waiting, semblance, unbearable, nausea and 35 more...
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dailyword Severinus used this word to describe Brother Barenger when they were doing his autopsy. Jun 13, 2012