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inverted

adjective

Having the order or direction exchanged; for example, turned upside down, reversed, or in any other way opposite or contrary and swapped. Phil was slumped over the edge of the mattress, inverted, watching her dress. He seemed to have a thing for that. She didn't mind; after eight years, she and Harry had long since ceased to ogle each other after bed. He'd taken longer than she had, but then, she knew he had more to look at than she d
of a chord Having the lowest note transposed an octave higher.
of sugar Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.
dated Homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory. Among the Normans, everywhere, homosexuality was markedly prevalent; the spread of sodomy in France about the eleventh century is attributed to the Normans, and their coming seems to have rendered it at times almost fashionable, at all events at court. In England, William Rufus was undoubtedly inver
Internet, of a person Assumed to be transgender, in the terms of transvestigation.

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of invert

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Closest in meaning: anatropous, turned, upside-down, reversed, returned, expended, spent, disarmed, invested, overthrown, spilled, switched, upturned, overturned, flipped, upended

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adj upside down

हिन्दी	उल्टा ulṭā, विलोमित vilomit
Français	inversé, inversée
Deutsch	umgekehrt, invertiert
Italiano	rovesciato

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@misc{inverted_2026,
  title = {inverted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/inverted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}