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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. With the order or meaning reversed; conversely.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The order being changed. The phrase has the complete force of a proposition, being as much as to say that upon a transposition of antecedents the consequents are also transposed.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. The same but with the two things or people mentioned reversed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. with the order reversed

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ablative absolute vice versā, from feminine third declension noun vicis ("arrangement, order, position, etc.") + feminine ablative singular of perfect passive participle versus, from vertō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin vice versā : vice, ablative of *vix, position + versā, feminine ablative of versus, past participle of vertere, to turn. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The thought of Bubbe on top of Roy or vice versa was a horrid vision, one that would be followed by an entire mental slide show of grotesque horrors, catalogued by my “Morbid Thought Disorder,” which began at age three, after viewing Holocaust films and photographs on Bubbe Mary’s TV.”

    Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. contrariwise
  1. conversely
  1. turn about
  1. vicey versey
  1. the other way round

reverse dictionary (58)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mechanical powers
  2. inversion
  3. disunite
  4. dodder
  5. enantiomorph
  6. heddle-setting
  7. lineocircular
  8. semiarc
  9. transfer-resistance
  10. vert
  11. pence-table
  1. color-hearing
  2. autotransformer
  3. bicollateral
  4. cross-examine
  5. v.v.
  6. dynamoelectric
  7. acronycally
  8. derivative
  9. fast and loose pulleys
  10. synchronous converter
  11. synecdoche
  1. psycho-motor
  2. rack and pinion
  3. rh incompatibility
  4. rotary
  5. rotary converter
  6. sublimated
  7. sublimed
  8. convert
  9. conversion
  10. pallet
  11. electrical converter
  1. horse
  2. turn
  3. electro-acoustic transducer
  4. knight
  5. againward
  6. caliber-rule
  7. canon
  8. counter-subject
  9. degree
  10. homographic
  11. hysteron proteron
  1. ionic
  2. journal
  3. modulate
  4. rack
  5. roller
  6. soum
  7. square
  8. stair
  9. current-collector
  10. dopplerization
  11. potomato
  1. temper
  2. tribrach
  3. variation

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