Word Meanings - PERVERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."

Additional info about word: PERVERSION

The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws." Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERVERSION)

• Color
• Hue
• tint
• complexion
• pretense
• speciousness
• tinge
• garbling
• falsification
• distortion
• perversion
• varnish
• Corruption
• Decomposition
• decay
• putrescence
• adulteration
• dev
• pravity
• rottenness
• defilement
• deterioration
• debasement
• taint
• contamination
• putrefaction
• detortion
• Wresting
• violation
• twisting
• decurvity
• devexity
• recurvation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERVERSION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge

Related words: (words related to PERVERSION)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PUTRESCENCE
  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
• FALSIFICATION
  The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story. (more info) 1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• DETORTION
  The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• PRETENSELESS
  Not having or making pretenses.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• WREST
  1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• TAINTURE
  Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.