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Retrovert

Definition: Retrovert

Retrovert

Verb

1. Go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules".

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

Note: Retrovert \Re"tro*vert\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Retroverted; present participle verb or noun Retroverting.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Retrovert

Synonyms: regress (v), return (v), revert (v), turn back (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Retrovert

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inversion

Invert, subvert, retrovert, introvert; reverse; up turn, over turn, up set, over set; turn topsy turvy; Adjective: culbuter; transpose, put the cart before the horse, turn the tables.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Retrovert

English words defined with "retrovert": Retroverted, Retroverting. (references)
Etymologies containing "retrovert": retrorse. (references)

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Rhyming with "Retrovert"

Words rhyming with "retrovert" (pronounced 'Re"tro*vert'): Advert, Animadvert, Antevert, Antrovert, Chetvert, Controvert, Culvert, introvert, Obvert, Unpervert, Vert. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Retrovert

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-r-r-t-t-v"

-1 letter: retorter.

-2 letters: evertor.

-3 letters: retore, retort, revert, revote, rotter, terret, terror, trevet, trover, vetoer.

-4 letters: error, evert, otter, overt, retro, revet, rotte, rover, torte, toter, trove, voter.

-5 letters: ever, over, rete, rote, rove, tore, torr, tort, tote, tree, tret, trot, veer, vert, veto, vote.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-o-r-r-r-t-t-v"
 

+3 letters: controverter.

 

+4 letters: controverters, tergiversator.

 

+5 letters: overstructured, tergiversators.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Retrovert


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

52 65 74 72 6F 76 65 72 74

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)

.-.    .    -    .-.    ---    ...-    .    .-.    -

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

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