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perverse

adj
/pɚˈvɝs/US/pəˈvɜːs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).

  1. derived from perversum — “thoroughly turned”
  2. derived from pervers
  3. inherited from perverse

Definitions

  1. Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.

    • Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity.
    • But in the same sense are modern Nietzsche's screams against the perverse (diverted) diffusion of these elemental pleas to reason for “reasons,” for the reasons—and place—of our fall in nonsense.
    • The diverted or perverse way is also not an easy path to walk. It is rightly called “crooked” and “twisting.”

  2. Morally wrong or evil

    Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.

  3. Obstinately in the wrong

    Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Wayward

      Wayward; vexing; contrary.

      • Where this perverse sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters […].

    2. Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions.

    3. A chiral opposite of something

      A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.

    4. To pervert.

      • This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed.
      • That I have loved you My most puissant disciple I am the fabric of life and death Humanity has perversed the truth

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Derived

perverb, perverse incentive, perversely, perverseness, perversity, perversive, polymorphous-perverse, polymorph-perverse, unperverse

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at perverse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at perverse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at perverse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA