From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], past participle of [la], from
[la] + [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[more]
1. Turned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. Morally wrong or evil ; wicked ; perverted .
6. * [en]
7. Obstinately in the wrong ; stubborn ; intractable .
8. Wayward ; vexing ; contrary .
9. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-20 | volume=408 | issue=8845 | magazine=w:The Economist
|title=Welcome to the plastisphere (see
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21581981-what-pollution-some-opportunity-others-welcome-plastisphere)
|passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine]
debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[...]Closer examination
showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in
several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the PERVERSE
arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.}}
1. * 2023 , Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, _The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model,_ The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947
2. *: Where this PERVERSE sign flip occurs depends on the values of other parameters [ … ] .
3. [en] Ignoring the evidence or the judge 's opinion s.
**** Usage notes
In their connotations, the forms [en] and [en] lean more toward the sense of
"vexing, contrary," while [en] and [en] lean more toward the sense of
"sexually deviant and immoral," but the division is not strict or consistent.
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en |perverse incentive |perversely |perverseness |perversity
|polymorph-perverse |polymorphous-perverse }}
**** Translations
[Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the (morally) right;
willfully erring; wicked; perverted]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing;
contrary]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[Ignoring the evidence or the judge's opinions]
- Irish: [ga]
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[en-noun] [en]
1. [en] A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1884 | author=w:Robert Edgar Allardice | title=Spherical Geometry
|passage=If two antipodal points move continuously on the sphere, they trace
out what are called symmetric figures. These figures have corresponding
elements equal, and are equal in area, but are not in general superposable.
The one is, in fact, the perverse of the other.
|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/s0013091500037020 }}
**** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To pervert .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Dutch
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Adjective
[nl]
1. [nl]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Adjective
[fr]
1. [fr]
*** Anagrams
- [fr] , [fr]
** German
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
*** Adjective
[de]
1. [pervers]
** Italian
*** Adjective
[it]
1. [it]
** Latin
*** Participle
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [R:L&S]
- [R:Elementary Lewis]
- [R:Gaffiot]