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Definition: Pervert |
PervertNoun1. A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. Verb1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women". 2. Change the meaning of. 3. Change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pervert" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
Note: Pervert \Per*vert"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Perverted; Perverting.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Perversion is a derogatory term for deviation from the original meaning or doctrine, literally 'turning aside' from what is perceived to be orthodox or normal. A pervert is a person in a state of perversion. By apocopation a 'pervert' becomes a 'perv,' a label proudly carried by many young gay Britishers. These terms have two common usages:
- It often refers to "sexual perversion", more neutrally called a paraphilia.
- The term perversion was also used in the pre-Vatican II era by some Roman Catholics to describe the process of converting from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism. Whereas a protestant who joined Roman Catholicism was described as a convert, a Catholic who became a Protestant was called a pervert. The phrase is no longer used by mainstream Catholicism, though a small conservative fringe do on occasion still use it.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Perversion."
Synonyms: PervertSynonyms: degenerate (n), deviant (n), deviate (n), abuse (v), convolute (v), corrupt (v), debase (v), debauch (v), demoralise (v), demoralize (v), deprave (v), misdirect (v), misuse (v), profane (v), sophisticate (v), twist (v), twist around (v), vitiate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Convert, pervert, renegade, apostate. |
Deterioration | Pervert, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious. |
Falsehood | Misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon; (misinterpret) |
Misinterpretation | Misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble; (falsify); distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring. |
Misteaching | Verb: misinform, misteach, misdescribe, misinstruct, miscorrect; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive; mislead; (error); misrepresent; lie; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces. |
Reasoning, | Pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead; (error); cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs; misrepresent; (lie). |
Tergiversation | Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pervert |
| English words defined with "pervert": corruptive ♦ Detort, Disgospel ♦ Misturn ♦ perversive, Perverting ♦ Writhe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pervert": Horn-book. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pervert": Perversion. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Maybe it was a pervert or a deformed kid or something (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) I can think of a couple of reasons the pervert! (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) That's me -- call me crazy, call me a pervert, but this is something I enjoy (Boogie Nights; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson.) Look, pervert, prude, it's not my job to label people (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) Yeah, you're a pervert! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Pervert (1963) | |
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Jean De La Bruyere | Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. |
Tryon Edwards | Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Pervert" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 49.09% of the time. "Pervert" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 49.09% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 45.45% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.91% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pervert": be pervert ♦ become pervert. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "pervert"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), përdor për keq, zvetënon, shtrembëroj kuptimin, njeri i zvetënuar, njeri i prishur, çorodit (bamboozle, disorient, disorientate, pose), çorodis (bamboozle, disorient, disorientate, pose). (various references) | |
Arabic | نحل (attenuate, decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, melt, pine, resolve, slim, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), تفسد أخلاقه, ضل (astray, err, lead astray, maunder, mislead, petering, seduce, stray), المنحرف مائل, المنحرف شاذ, المارق, إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ренегат (apostate, renegade, turnabout, turnaround, turncoat), развращавам (corrupt, debauch, defile), вероотстъпник (apostate), опорочавам (corrupt, defile, vitiate), покварявам (corrupt, demoralize, deprave, subvert, taint), погрешно насочвам, погрешно прилагам, погрешно използувам, полово извратен човек, извращавам (contort, deform, distort, strain, wrench), извратен човек, изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, falsify, mangle, mutilate, torture, travesty, turn about, twist), дегенерат (degenerate). (various references) | |
Chinese | 落者. (various references) | |
Czech | převrátit (bend over, invert, overthrow, overturn, turn over, turn up, Upend, upset), překroutit (distort, falsify, garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, skew, twist, wrench), zvrhlík (degenerate), svést (allure, conduct, debauch, misguide, seduce), renegát (renegade, turncoat, turn-coat), odpadlík (apostate, defector, dropout, renegade, turncoat, vert). (various references) | |
Farsi | منحرف کردن (Alienate, Bend, Calloff, Deflect, Divert, Shunt, Swerve, Warp, Wring), منحرف (Aberrant, Amiss, Astray, Awry, Deviant, Devious, Hellbent, Lost, Oblique, Perverse, Skew), مرتد (Apostate, Heretic, Heterodox, Relapse, Renegade), گمراه شدن (Err, Stray), ازراه راست بدرکردن , بدراه . (various references) | |
Finnish | vääristää (bend, distort, make crooked, twist). (various references) | |
French | pervertir, perverti sexuel, fausser, dépraver, dénaturer, déformer, apostat. (various references) | |
German | verdrehen (adjust, contort, Crick, distort, juggling, misrepresent, roll, skew, sprain, to contort, to distort, to misrepresent, to pervert, to sophisticate, to twist, twist, wrench), pervertieren (become perverted, to pervert, warp). (various references) | |
Greek | φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, reprobate, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wanton, wicked), διεστραμμένοσ (aberrant, bestial, crooked, cross-grained, distorted, perverse, perverted), διαστρέφω (belie, contort, distort, garble, twist, vitiate, warp, wrench), διαστρεβλώ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מומר (apostate, convert, proselyte, renegade), לקפח (deprive, ruin, strike, take by force), לעות (contort, corrupt, distort, falsify, strain, subvert, twist, warp), לעקוש (distort), ל"שחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, deprave, destroy, mangle, spoil, vitiate), ל"עוות (corrupt, distort, twist), לסלף (distort, falsify, garble, misrepresent, parody, skew, twist, wrench, wrest), לסטות (deviate, diverge, go astray, robbery, stray, turn aside, wayward), סורר (corrupt, disloyal, intractable, rebellious, untoward), לוז (aberrant, crooked, deviate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hitehagyott (adulterous, apostate, renegade), fajtalan egyén. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang yang bersifat tak wajar. (various references) | |
Italian | pervertito, pervertire (become perverted, debauch), corrompere (become corrupted, bribe, buy, corrupt, debauch, deprave, pollute, putrefy, rot, seduce, taint). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 痴漢 (masher, molester). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へ"たい (abnormality, formation, metamorphosis, transformation), とうさくしゃ, ちか" (flaccid, masher, molester, relaxation, substitute). (various references) | |
Korean | 배교자. (various references) | |
Manx | cleaynagh (addict, attractive, circumventory, coaxing, deviationist, inclinable, inclining, slopewise, tempter, witching), chyndaa er shaghryn, cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring), cammaghey (crook, distort, inflect, twist). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ervertpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | transviado. (various references) | |
Romanian | perverti (corrupt, debauch, sophisticate), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), rãstãlmãci (distort, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, spell backward), interpreta greşit (gloss, misconstrue, misinterpret, misread, misunderstand), folosi greşit (misapply, misemploy, misuse), duce pe cãi greşite, denatura (angle, denaturalize, denature, distort, falsify, give false colour to, mangle, misrepresent, palter with, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, warp, wrest), degrada (abase, bastardize, break, come down, debase, degrade, depreciate, dilapidate, gradate, grade, reduce to the ranks, waste), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, taint, vitiate), înrãutãţi (deteriorate, embitter, worsen). (various references) | |
Russian | совращать, развращать (corrupt, debauch, defile, deprave, pollute), вводить в заблуждение (decoy, delude, hoodwink, lead into error, misguide, mislead, set wrong), искажать (contort, defeature, deprave, distort, distort with, falsify, garble, misrepresent, misstate, mutilate, skew, strain, vitiate), извращенный человек, извращать извращенец, извращать (sophisticate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pokvarenjak, razvratnik (debauch, debauchee), izopačiti (distort, garble, vitiate). (various references) | |
Spanish | pervertido (deviant, perverted, wry). (various references) | |
Swedish | fördärva (corrupt, deflower, deprave, destroy, flaw, foozle, hash, Mar, perish, queer, ruin, undo, vitiate). (various references) | |
Turkish | sapık (aberrant, Dotty, perverse, perverted, unnatural, wacky), din değiştirmiş kimse, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), baştan çıkarmak (allure, corrupt, debauch, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, seduce, tempt, wile), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), çarpıtmak (angle, color, colour, contort, distort, garble, make awry, make crooked, skew, slant, strain, torture, twist, warp, wrench, wrest, wring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, filth, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), розбещена людина, відступник (apostate, defector, seceder, secessionist), перекручувати (bedevil, contort, deform, disguise, distort, garble, kink, misconstrue, mutilate, sophisticate, torture, travesty, warp, wrest, wring). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hư hỏng, người bỏ đảng kẻ trái thói về tình dục, người bỏ đạo (apostate), người đ"i truỵ kẻ lầm đường. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwyrdroi (distort). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | corrumpam, corrumpantur, corrumpas, corrumpet, corrumpetur, corrumpit, corrumpitur, corrumpunt, corruperat, corruperunt, corrupimus, corrupit, corrupta, corruptae, corruptam, corruptaque, corrupti, corrupto, corruptorum, corruptum, corruptus, depravant, depravat, depravatum, depravatus, pervertere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | LambanontoV dwra en kolpw adikwV ou kateuodountai odoi asebhV de ekklinei odouV dikaiosunhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Munera de sinu impius accipit ut pervertat semitas iudicii |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Yiftis of the bosum the vnpitous taketh, that he peruerte the pathis of dom. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 17, Verse 23 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang tawong dautan magadawat ug usa ka hiphip gikan sa sabakan, Aron sa pagbalit-ad sa mga dalan sa justicia. |
| Croatian | Opaki prima dar iz njedara da bi iskrivio putove pravici. |
| Danish | Den gudløse tager Gave i Løn for at bøje Rettens Gænge. |
| Dutch | De goddeloze zal het geschenk uit den schoot nemen, om de paden des rechts te buigen. |
| Finnish | Jumalaton ottaa lahjuksen vastaan toisen povelta vääristääksensä oikeuden tiet. |
| French | Le méchant accepte en secret des présents, Pour pervertir les voies de la justice. |
| German | Der Gottlose nimmt heimlich gern Geschenke, zu beugen den Weg des Rechts. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Malveyan pran lajan nan men moun pou enpoze jistis fèt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hakim yang curang, menerima uang sogok secara rahasia dan tidak menjalankan keadilan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa orang fasik mengambil hadiah dari dalam ribaan akan memutar-balikkan segala jalan hukum. |
| Italian | L'iniquo accetta regali di sotto il mantello per deviare il corso della giustizia. |
| Maori | ¶ E tango ana te tangata kino i te mea whakapati i te uma, hei whakapeau ke i nga ara o te whakarite whakawa. |
| Norwegian | Den ugudelige tar gaver ut av barmen for å bøie rettens gang. |
| Portuguese | O ímpio recebe do regaço a peita, para perverter as veredas da justiça. |
| Rumanian | Cel rqu primewte daruri pe ascuns, ca sq suceascq wi cqile dreptqyii. - |
| Russian | оЕЮЕУФЙЧЩК 'ЕТЕФ П"БТПЛ ЙЪ БЪХИЙ, ЮФП'Щ ЙЪЧТБФЙФШ ХФЙ ТБЧПУХ"ЙС. |
| Spanish | El impío toma soborno de su seno para pervertir las sendas del derecho. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pervert": perverted, pervertedly, pervertedness, pervertednesses, perverter, perverters, perverting, perverts. (additional references) | |
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"Pervert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hervert, Kervern, Pavitra, Peover, Perberton, Perdeeta, perer, Perfrx, Perger, perve, Perver, perverb, pervers, perverty, perwert, peuvent, Peveit, pever, pevero, pevert, Porfert, prevert, prevest, prevet, Purver. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pervert" (pronounced per"vert or perver"t) |
| 3 | -v er t | convert, covert, culvert. |
| 3 | -v er" t | avert, divert, Evert, invert, overt, revert, subvert, vert. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: perter, revert. | |
-2 letters: evert, peter, revet. | |
-3 letters: ever, peer, pert, pree, rete, tree, veep, veer, vert. | |
-4 letters: ere, err, eve, pee, per, pet, ree, rep, ret, rev, tee, vee, vet. | |
-5 letters: er, et, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: overpert, perverts. | |
+2 letters: perverted, perverter, pretravel, preventer, privateer. | |
+3 letters: overreport, perversity, perverters, perverting, preharvest, preventers, privateers, reparative, resorptive. | |
+4 letters: overoperate, overprinted, overpromote, overprotect, overreports, overtrumped, perseverate, pervertedly, preharvests, preparative, prerogative, prevaricate, privateered, procreative, reprivatize, reprobative. | |
+5 letters: interpretive, interruptive, irrespective, overoperated, overoperates, overpromoted, overpromotes, overprotects, overreported, peradventure, performative, perseverated, perseverates, perversities, preinterview, preoperative, preparatives, prerogatived, prerogatives, prescriptive, preservation, preservative, prevaricated, prevaricates, privateering, recuperative, reprivatized, reprivatizes, reproductive. | |
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