perverted
adjEtymology From pervert + -ed.
1
Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
2
Derogatory, Sometimes Of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
3
Misrepresented, altered or distorted.
4
Sciences Obsolete Reversed in chirality; flipped.
- The reflection of an object in a mirror image is a perverted image of the object.1873, James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise of Electricity and Magnetism, Clarendon Press:
- The right hand may be considered the perverted image of the left.1906, Henry Smith Carhart, Physics for University Students, page 232:
- Antonyms
- normophilic
- Derived terms
- nonperverted, pervalicious, pervertedly, pervertedness, unperverted