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Perversive

Definition: Perversive

Perversive

Adjective

1. Tending to corrupt or pervert.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Perversive

Synonym: corruptive (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Perversive

Language Translations for "perversive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مفسد (contaminated, corruptive, infectious, spoiling), ‏مضل (beguiler, deceptive, delusive, misleading). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

покваряващ (poisonous), действуващ разложително. (various references)

   

German

  

verderblich (baleful, balefully, baneful, banefully, corrupting, malign, noxious, perishable, pernicious, perniciously, ruinous, unwholesome). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στρεβλωτικόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bomlasztó (corruptive, disruptive, subversive). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erversivepay

   

Portuguese

  

perversor, obstinação (industrial, Mull, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, recalcitrance, refractoriness, self will, stubbornness, tenacity). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

извращающий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji izopačuje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pervertidor (perverter). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vrånglig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yanıltıcı (captious, colorable, elusory, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading, specious, token). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що перекручує. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

làm lầm đường lạc lối, dùng sai; làm sai; hiểu sai; xuyên tạc làm hư hỏng, đưa vào con đường sai. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Perversive"

Words rhyming with "perversive" (pronounced 'Per*ver"sive'): Aborsive, Abrasive, Abusive, Accessive, Adhesive, Admissive, Aggressive, Allusive, Amusive, Animadversive, Anticonvulsive, Appeasive, Applausive, Apprehensive, Appulsive, Ascensive, Assuasive, Coextensive, Cohesive, Collisive, Collusive, Commissive, Comprehensive, Compulsive, Concessive, Conclusive, Concussive, Confusive, Congressive, Conversive, Convulsive, Corrasive, Corresponsive, Decursive, Delusive, illusive, impassive, incisive, inclusive, incomprehensive, inconclusive, incursive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, Nonsubmissive, Obtrusive, Occasive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Perversive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-p-r-r-s-v-v"

-1 letter: reprieves.

-2 letters: perverse, preserve, reprieve, reveries, revivers.

-3 letters: peeries, perries, previse, prisere, reivers, reprise, reserve, respire, reveres, reverie, reverse, reviser, reviver, revives, rievers, seepier, severer, veeries.

-4 letters: eerier, peerie, peeves, priers, reeves, reiver, reives, rerise, revere, revers, revise, revive, riever, rivers, server, severe, sirree, sprier, verier, verser, verves, vesper, vipers, vivers.

-5 letters: eerie, epees, peers.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-p-r-r-s-v-v"
 

+2 letters: preservative.

 

+3 letters: preservatives.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Perversive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 72 76 65 72 73 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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